Corporate Governance - Governance, Risk, and Compliance Topic for Oracle Applications - page 46

Once you have selected a document category you can create its disposition rule.
In the following example captured in the screenshot, the disposition action is that
employee records should be destroyed after a period of three years:
Running the Document Disposition Check
The following steps outline the basic workflow of retained content:
1. Items are filed into the retention schedule by users. The filed items assume
the disposition schedules of their assigned category.
2. Disposition rules are processed in accordance with the defined disposition
schedules, which usually have a retention period. The processing is activated
by either a system-derived trigger or custom trigger. The trigger could affect
one or more items simultaneously.
3. Content is often filed then destroyed after a certain number of years. The
system tracks when the affected content is due for action. Notification e-mail
is sent to reviewers with links to the pages where reviewers can review and
approve content, and folders that are due for dispositions.