Content Type allows association of policies as well. The policy will be applied to all the items or documents of the specific content type. Here we can explore how to configure them.
Types of Policies
The following are the types of policies:
- Retention
- Auditing
- Barcodes
- Labels
Procedure
The following is the procedure to create a content type with policy.
Create your content type.
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Choose Content Type > Advanced Settings link.
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In the page that appears you will see the following policies.
- Retention
- Auditing
- Barcodes
- Labels
Retention policies allow us to specify when the content should be moved or disposed. We can specify events like Created Date + 1 year for deleting the content after 1 year of creation.
Auditing enables logging the editing and opening events along with the user information.
Barcodes policies enable users to specify barcodes for the documents.
Label polices allow users to add a label containing information about the Document Retention policy section as shown below.
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The Auditing policy section is shown below.
![Auditing policy]()
The Barcodes policy section is shown below.
![Barcodes]()
The Labels policy section is shown below.
![Labels policy section]()
Summary
This article explored how to configure policies for content types.