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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Data Retention best practices</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/38176/data-retention-best-practices</link><description>Are there any official, generic guide lines when it comes to retention of information stored in the database and the documentation stored in knowledge centers (when to archive, eliminate, how to handle such situation)? 
 It&amp;#39;s obvious we&amp;#39;d have to tailor</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Data Retention best practices</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/143705?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:57:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:063a0681-26c0-47b1-9263-1de3ad30f0b2</guid><dc:creator>Mathieu Drouin</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;This is as close as you&amp;#39;ll get: &lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Archiving_Processes.html"&gt;docs.appian.com/.../Archiving_Processes.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Data retention rules are usually primarily dictated by the organisation itself and sometimes by technical / costing considerations (i.e. price of disk space).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For documents specifically, I would generally advise on moving them to a CMS at some point in their lifecycle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Data Retention best practices</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/143698?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:49:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:dee869f7-4c90-4648-a299-f5975fd04e73</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I do not know of any best practices. In the end, you will have to store the date when to handle deletion for each document or record. Then schedule a cleanup process that manages the required tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>