Retention Service

The retention service ensures that archived documents cannot be deleted or modified until a certain period has past.
The retention period is applied to the archive object at creation of the document or folder in the archive according to preconfigured retention rules.

Retention is implemented and configured differently depending on the architecture:

Using ArchiveLink, the retention is configured in the archive server, so activate retention service in this scenario.
ILM configures retention completely in SAP system. DO NOT activate the retention service in ILM configuration.
CMIS configures retention in SAP system, but also archive server-side configuration may be used.

Activation and deactivation of retention service

The retention service is activated in configuration by setting the retention.type parameter to adretention:

<repository or template>.retention.type=adretention

In case the retention service is activate by template, but it should be deactivate for single repository, set the parameter for this repository to none:

<repository name>.retention.type=none

After activation specify the retention rules: Creating a retention rule