Edlink has circuit-breakers in place to prevent the accidental disruption classes or systems due to large amounts of data being deleted. In most cases, large data deletions are intentional (e.g. the school cleaning up old classes or removing graduated students), but sometimes, these changes can be due to a mistake at the school or even a bug in Edlink's codebase.
When a large deletion is detected, Edlink will stop the sync and place it into a pending state. At this point, school administrators or Edlink support team members can then review the changes and decide whether to proceed with the sync or cancel it.
- Currently, these deletion thresholds are not adjustable, but they may be in the future.
- The threshold is currently set to 10% of any individual data type.
- The pending sync deletion threshold does not apply to changes made via sharing rules or data transformations.
- These changes apply to data "on the way out" of Edlink's system, not "on the way in".
- We may add additional circuit-breakers for these types of changes in the future, but this is not possible today.
How to Review Pending Syncs
Pending syncs can be reviewed and resolved by the school admin by following the steps in our guide.
Random Minutiae
- Sources will continue to attempt their daily sync, even if there is a pending sync awaiting review.
- If a newer (i.e. more recent) sync completes without triggering a circuit-breaker, the pending sync will still remain, but can be safely discarded.
- If a pending sync is manually forced to continue, the sync will proceed as normal even if the source is set to
pausedordisabled.