A retention schedule in iManage Disposition Manager are groups of events that are applied to the same content, together, and dictate when and what iManage Disposition Manager does to the contents to the workspaces or folders it is applied to.

More broadly, a retention and disposition schedule specifies how long to retain records, enabling timely, systematic disposal by setting retention and disposal guidelines based on business requirements.

You can create any number of schedules. The Schedules page in iManage Disposition Manager displays all the schedules that are created. You can also use this page to:

IMPORTANT: When two tasks (one declare and one destruction task) are scheduled to run on the same day and at the same time, the declare task runs first. There will be one attempt to trigger the destruction task after the declare task is completed. For some reason, if the destruction task can't run, it'll be automatically triggered the next day, unless triggered manually.

When records are destroyed, they are deleted from iManage Work at cloudimanage.com and cannot be retrieved or restored. Records aren't destroyed immediately when events to destroy records are created, or added to a schedule, or applied to workspaces, folder, or sub-folders. Records are destroyed when tasks defined by these destroy events are manually or automatically executed.

NOTE: You need to be a Records Manager to create schedules.