There might be a situation when the disposition schedule associated with an entity is not serving the required purpose and you want to associate some other disposition schedule with that entity. Another situation might be when an entity is inheriting a disposition schedule from its parent entity and later you want it to be associated with a different schedule rather than that of the parent. Finally, you might want to clear an existing disposition schedule until later.
Assigning a different disposition schedule when affected entities have already been cut off changes their previous disposition. Disposition Sweep discards previous calculations and starts over using the new disposition schedule. Associating a new disposition schedule with an entity can be done by authorized users (Records Manager, Records Administrator, or Reviewer in Pro standard; Records Manager or Records Administrator in DoD or Base).
When you assign a different disposition schedule, you can propagate the schedule to its child containers in the following ways:
NOTE Be aware that explicitly reassigning a disposition schedule to a child container that previously inherited the same schedule breaks a link between the parent and child with regard to inheritance. Any such container will not be assigned to the new schedule you assign to its parent.
To change the disposition schedule assigned to a container
NOTE By default, the disposition authority specified for the selected disposition schedule will be automatically assigned as the disposition authority for the container. If a disposition authority is not set for the selected schedule, the disposition authority that you set for the container will be applicable. If a disposition authority was set when the container was created but no disposition schedule was assigned, the schedule's disposition authority will override the disposition authority set earlier.
To change the disposition schedule assigned to a record type