Retention Days

The number of days the document remains on the system past the Last Edit Date. This field is valid when the Retention Type is Archive, Delete, or Optical. Depending on how your DM administrator has set up your system, you may be able to change this value.

The Retention Days field is inaccessible if the document Retention Type is Keep or Template. When the retention days expire, the document becomes a candidate for archiving or deleting. Any time a document is edited and saved, the Retention Days countdown begins again.

When you type information in the Retention Days field on the document profile form, you must ensure that you type only numeric characters. If you type a non-numeric character, such as a letter or symbol, an error message will appear. In order to complete the document profile form, the non-numeric characters will need to be changed to numeric.

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