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Add a record to a hold

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-04-21

Add a record to a hold when you want to prevent a record from expiring and being deleted. Before adding a record to a hold, you must first create the hold. For more information, see Create a hold.

Important

Membership in the Owners group, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure.

To add a record to a hold

Use this procedure to add a record to a hold.

Add a record to a hold

  1. Open the list or library that contains the record that you want to add to the hold.

  2. Point to the record that you want to add to the hold, click the arrow that appears, and then click Manage Holds.

    Note

    You cannot add a folder to a hold. To add the contents of a folder to a hold, add the individual items directly.

  3. On the Item Hold Status page, in the Add or remove from hold section, click Add to a hold, and then select the specific hold to which you want to add the record.

  4. In the Comments box, type any comments that you want to provide about why you are adding this record to the hold. These comments are stored in the audit log for the event that corresponds to this hold addition.

  5. Click Save.

See Also

Concepts

Search for records to add to a hold
Create a hold