One of the most important things to configure within the File Plan is the retention schedule — the specification for how long a type of record needs to be retained before being disposed of. In the DoD 5015.2 specification, retention schedules are a key component of the disposition schedule. In this chapter, we learned how to configure the disposition schedules. We covered the following topics:
At the end of the chapter, in a 'How does it work' section, we looked, in detail, at how the Alfresco site Edit disposition web page is constructed. In particular, we covered:
In both this chapter and the last, we covered the setup and configuration of the Records Management File Plan. With the File Plan now in place, we are ready to actually begin filing content into the plan and we will discuss some of the many ways that filing can be done within Alfresco in the next chapter.