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Retention Period

rbahntje_Bahntj — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:33:08 GMT

Is there any way to set a retention period for a document or a folder; so it can not be deleted efore the period expired?

Re: Retention Period

Olivier_Grisel — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:52:45 GMT

This feature is currently not implemented in the default platform. It could probably be implemented programmatically (e.g. with an operation or a Seam component + new tab with a JSF template or both) by setting a local ACL at the document level that deny the "Remove" permission to anybody. It would be best be combined with a dedicated custom schema & facet + layout that stores and display the "Retention Period" metadata (e.g.: date, user id of the person who put the retention period, comment explaining the legal or organizational reason for the retention period) on the document when setting the ACL.

An other component such as an event listener that reacts to a scheduled daily event could then query the repository for any document whose retention period as expired, remove the local ACL

Re: Retention Period

rbahntje_Bahntj — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:16:17 GMT

Thanks Oliver.... Did you know if there is something like this in Nuxeo Roadmap for version 6?

Re: Retention Period

Olivier_Grisel — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:25:01 GMT

I think something like this is in the CMIS roadmap (either for the specifications in version 1.1 or the version 2.0) that would imply us to implement it in Nuxeo (in the longer term). However I don't think we have any customer that ask us to prioritize such a feature for Nuxeo 6.