Set Retention Rules in Your Archive

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Social Media Archiving supports the disposal of social media records from your archive. There are two options for setting retention rules, detailed below. Before creating a retention rule in your archive, please familiarize yourself with the considerations on records disposition.

  • Default Retention Rule: This will set a rule that applies to all records within the organization.

  • Scoped Retention Rule: This is a set of rules that can be set to specific accounts, account owners, or tags. All scoped rules configured take precedence over the default retention rule unless the default requires a minimum retention period. If multiple rules apply to a given record, that record will be retained based on the rule with the longest retention time.

Important Note

Retention rules are also applied to any accounts marked as historical within the archive.

Who can use this feature?

System Admin

Set Up Default Retention Rules

  1. Sign in to your site

  2. Navigate to the Configure tab:The Configure tab in the top navigation menu.

  3. Select Retention Rules from the left side menu:Retention Rules in the left navigation menu.

  4. Select Add Default Retention Rule:Add Default Retention Rule button.

  5. Select the desired Time Period:Time Period dropdowns.

  6. Select desired Compliance Options:Compliance Options checkboxes.

    • Require minimum retention period: This sets the default rule as the minimum time for a retention rule, overriding potentially shorter time periods that may be specified in scoped retention rules

    • Make the rule permanent: This sets the rule as a mandatory minimum record-keeping period

  7. Click the Save button:Save button.


Set Up Scoped Retention Rules

  1. Sign in to your site

  2. Navigate to the Configure tab:The Configure tab in the top navigation menu.

  3. Select Retention Rules from the left side menu:Retention Rules in the left navigation menu.

  4. Select Add Retention Rule:Add Retention Rule button.

  5. Add a Name for the Retention Rule:Retention Rule Name field.

  6. Add a Description of what the parameters of the rule are:Add retention Rule description.

  7. Define your Scope using the drop-downs:Scope dropdown with All accounts owned by highlighted.

    • Specific Accounts:Specific account scope.

    • Accounts Owners:Account Owner retention rule.

    • Records Tags:Enter or select tag option.

    • Add More: Select to add more than one scope record.

  8. Select the Time Period:Retention time period setting.

  9. Click the Save button:Save button.

    • Once configured, system admins can see notifications on the Dashboard letting them know if they have any records that are past their retention periods. At that point, the admin can view and permanently dispose of the records. System admins will receive an email notification when records are disposed of from the archive.