Manage Life Cycle Management Rules

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Required permissions: Life Cycle Management Edit

Life Cycle Management lets you create rules that determine what happens with files stored in Cloud Storage.

Create Rules

The Create New Life Cycle Storage rule page, where you can create a new rule for managing files in Cloud Storage.
  1. Click the app selector and select Admin.
  2. Click Cloud Storage  > Life Cycle Management.
  3. Click New Rule.

  4. In the General Details section, enter a Name for this rule and select its Start Date, Media Type, and Rule Priority.

    If you Archive digital or Interaction Analytics files in long-term storage, they can only be retrieved using the date range criteria. They currently lack the metadata to be retrieved using other criteria.

    Cloud Storage supports attachments from digital interactions but not digital transcripts. Any action you take to digital files will only apply to attachments. See the Media Type description in the following drop-down for more information.

    Field

    Details
    Name Enter a unique name for the rule. The name should help you recognize what the rule is created for and what it applies to. For example, Compliance regulation - 7 years or Team A, B, and C calls.

    Start Date

    Select the date on which the rule becomes active. This can be today's date or a future date.
    Description Describe the rule, so that you or someone else could understand the context and the conditions in the rule.
    Media Type

    Select the type of files you want this rule to apply to. The options available to you depend on your license. possible types are: 

    • Call Recordings

    • Chat Transcripts

    • Digital—This type manages the life cycle of attachments from Digital Experience interactions. You can manage the transcripts of digital interactions using WFA jobs.

    • Email

    • IA Report (for Interaction Analytics)

    • Screen Recordings
    Rule Priority

    Select the priority level for the rule. P1 is the highest priority. If multiple rules apply to the same files, the rule with the highest priority applies.
    Each rule must have a different priority. If you give a new rule a priority that another rule already has, then the priority level of the preexisting rule, and all rules with lower priorities, are reduced by one level each.

  5. Under Active Storage Requirements, select the Action Type for this rule.

    Action

    Details
    Keep Files Forever Stores the files in active storage indefinitely. You can choose to Copy to Secure External Access when you keep files in active storage.
    Delete Deletes the files from active storage after the number of days you specify in After (# of Days). You can choose to Copy to Secure External Access when you delete files from active storage.
    Move To Long Term Storage

    Moves the files to long-term storage after the number of days you specify in After (# of Days). You can choose to Copy to Secure External Access when you move files to long-term storage.

    When you select this option, you need to choose what happens to files when they move to long-term storage: 

    • Delete—Files are deleted from long-term storage after the number of days you specify in the After # of Days field that appears.
    • Keep Files Forever—Files stay in long-term storage.
    Move to Secure External Access

    Moves the files to SEA after the number of days you specify in After (# of Days). This action doesn't leave a copy in cloud storage. Files are automatically deleted from SEA after 30 days if you haven't already moved or deleted them manually.

    When you edit a rule, you can add this option. It's not recommended, however, because it can result in files being managed by the same rule but processed in different ways.

  6. If the action you select supports it, enter a value for After # of Days and select whether you want to Copy to Secure External Access.

    Field

    Details

    Copy to Secure External Access

    Select to have the files copied to secure external access (SEA) in addition to the Action you choose. This option appears after you select the Active Storage action in the life cycle rule. It is not available if you choose Move to Secure External Access from the Action drop-down list.

    Files can be copied to SEA one time only. If you copy a file to SEA as a test, you won't be able to copy it to SEA again in the future.

    After # of Days

    The number of days a file remains in long-term storage before it's deleted. The minimum number of days is 0 and the maximum is 9999 days. The day a file moves into long-term storage counts as day one. If you select 0, the file is deleted immediately.

    This field is not available for the Keep action.

    It can take up to 24 hours for the selected action to run on the affected files. The timing depends on factors including the number of files impacted and the size of the backlog on the server.

  7. If you chose Call Recordings, Chat Transcripts, Emails, or Screen Recordings as the Media Type and want to refine the rule to apply to only certain files, create a filter in the Filter criteria section. If your rule applies to Call Recordings or Screen Recordings and you have disposition-based TTLClosed The period of time these interactions are retained and the timing of their deletion. You define the TTL settings for your interactions. enabled in your environment, first select Standard as the filter type.

    By default, a rule applies to all skillsClosed Used to automate delivery of interactions based on agent skills, abilities, and knowledge, DNISClosed Identifies the number the contact dialed to reach you for inbound voice calls and the number the agent or system dialed on outbound voice calls., teams, and agents.

    Field

    Details
    Filter By DNIS

    Enter the DNIS that you want this rule to apply to. If you want to add more than one DNIS, separate them with commas. Don't include spaces after the commas.

    This option is available only for Call Recording and Screen Recording media types.

    Filter By Skills Click each of the skills you want this rule to apply to. You can select up to 10 skills.
    Filter By Teams/Agents Click Teams or Agents to limit this rule by that option, then select up to 10 teams or agents from the drop-down list.

  8. If you have disposition-based TTL enabled in your environment, your Media Type is Call Recordings or Screen Recordings, and you want to refine the rule to only apply to files with a certain disposition applied to it, create a filter in the Filter criteria section. To do so, select the Custom filter type. Use the drop-down to select the Disposition you want to filter by.

    The disposition-based time to live (TTL)Closed The period of time these interactions are retained and the timing of their deletion. You define the TTL settings for your interactions. feature is currently in controlled release (CR). If you are not part of the CR group and would like more information, contact your CXone Account Representative.

    The disposition-based TTL feature also requires that you purchase a license to use it.

  9. Click Create.

Retag Files

Retagging allows you to have Cloud Storage Services assess all files currently managed by the default system rule. Before retagging files, create or modify rules to address the reasons files are falling through to the default rule.

  1. Click the app selector and select Admin.
  2. Click Cloud Storage > Life Cycle Management.
  3. Click the three vertical dots icon () at the top right corner of the screen and select Process Default System Rules Files.

  4. In the pop-up message, select I Understand The Above Information and click Confirm. The retagging process begins. You can view the progress on the File Activity tab.

Deactivate Rules

Avoid deactivating rules. Only the default rule can be retagged. Files tagged with a user-created rule cannot be retagged, and they continue to follow the life cycle rules of the deactivated rule indefinitely. You cannot edit or reactivate a deactivated rule.

If you keep the rule active, you can still edit the life cycle rules for those files in the future. So, instead of deactivating a rule, consider giving it a lower priority. You can create a new rule to replace the one you have pushed down in priority. However, since files with the old rule cannot be retagged, only new files will be tagged with the new rule.

If you still choose to deactivate an existing rule, follow these instructions:

  1. Create a new rule to replace the rule you want to deactivate.

  2. Open the rule you want to deactivate. Change the Rule Priority to the lowest priority. Click Update.

  3. Wait until all files assigned to the old rule finish processing.

  4. When all the files assigned to the old rule have completed their life cycle, deactivate the rule.

    • On the Life Cycle Management page, locate the old rule.

    • In the top right corner of the rule, click the Options Options icon, which is three dots stacked on top of each other icon.

    • Click Deactivate.

    • Read the message in the confirmation window and click Yes.