Adding, Editing, or Deleting Preservation Rules

Purpose

Add, edit, or delete the preservation rules within a preservation policy when you want to determine how build outputs of specific item types are to be preserved in Dimensions.

To edit or delete preservation rules:

  1. In the Build Administration main window, click the Preservation Policies tab and select the preservation policy whose rules you want to change in the navigation pane.

  2. In the Preservation Rules area, do one of the following:

    If you want to...

    Then...

    Add a rule

    1. Click Add: add_button00009.gif

    2. In the New Preservation Rule dialog box, select the item type for which you want to add a rule.

    3. Select the rule you want to apply to this item type.

    Edit a rule

    1. Select the Type whose rule you want to edit.

    2. Click Edit: editbutton00010.gif

    3. In the Edit Preservation Rule dialog box, select the rule you want to apply to this item type.

    4. Click OK to confirm the changes.

    NOTE  You cannot change the type. You must delete the rule for a type and add a new one to change it.

    Delete a rule

    1. Select the Type whose rule you want to delete.

    2. Click Delete: Delete_button00011.gif

    3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the rule.

Related Topics

About Preservation Policies

New/Edit Preservation Rule Dialog Box