Chapter 6. Creating Disposition Schedules

In the last chapter, we designed the overall structure of the File Plan. An important part of the File Plan is the disposition schedule, which includes information about how long records will be retained. In this chapter, we will look in detail at the meaning of the disposition schedule and we will see how to configure it within Alfresco. Specifically, we will describe:

• The disposition schedule as the descriptor for the final stage of a record's lifecycle

• Example disposition schedules

• The process for creating a disposition within Alfresco

• How to import and export the File Plan

At the end of this chapter, in a "How does it work?" section, we look in detail at developer internals of the Share web pages used to configure the disposition schedule for a record Category within the Records Management site. We will see how it is built from the YUI library using the Spring-Surf web framework. We will also see how Share communicates with the Alfresco repository...