When declaring a document, be aware that there can be issues if the document is part of a compound document. When adding child documents to parents, settings can be specified that interfere with the normal disposition schedule of related documents. A setting that prevents any document (parent or child) from being deleted can interfere with the normal schedule of deleting documents when they are due to be deleted. Similarly, specifying that a child document is to be deleted when its parent is deleted can interfere with the normal disposition process of the child document. See Configuring IBM® InfoSphere™ Enterprise Records for details about the consequences of various settings.
Since the compound document parent has a special icon, you can easily identify it and explore its children and their links prior to declaring them as records. Note that with the appropriate modify properties rights, as well as additional children can be added to a parent document later, after you've already declared it as a record. You can also change the settings associated with a child document. (To do this select Modify Child instead of Link Info in the following procedure.)
To declare a document as a record: