You can add new electronic, physical, or hybrid volumes
to record folders. The type of volume must be the same as its folder
type. You cannot add box volumes.
When you create a record folder, the system automatically
creates a volume under that record folder. Volumes are typically used
to limit the number of items, perhaps to partition records by month
or by year. When you open a new volume, the old one is automatically
closed. No more records will be automatically added to a closed volume,
though you can add them manually if necessary. For example, if a record
must be in a volume that is now closed, you can open the old volume
and add the record manually. Then close the volume again. A volume
inherits the disposition schedule of the record folder under which
it is created. You cannot define a disposition schedule that is independent
of the parent record folder. In addition, you cannot create a subfolder
or volume under a volume.
To add a volume:
- Log in as a Records Manager or Records Administrator and
open the record folder under which you want to create the volume.
- Click Add Volume:

Set properties
- Enter or modify the displayed property values. Some properties
can be edited in this page. Others require that you click the property
name to edit the values. The Volume Name field
will be pre-filled with a pattern name that is based on the pattern
that you selected during the configuration. You can enter in any name
in the Volume Name field, but you cannot have
duplicate volume names. You cannot include any of the following characters
as part of the volume name: \ / : * ? " < > |.
For more information about displayed properties, refer to Properties reference.
- Click Next to set vital record information
or select another step from the left panel.
Attention: If
your display setting in your Site Preferences or User
Preferences for Show vital records step when
you create containers is set to No,
the program hides the vital review step, so you can skip to the Set
security section of this topic.
Set vital record
If all the records created under the new volume
need continuous reviews and updates, you can mark the volume as Vital.
Before you can complete this step, one or more vital review actions
must exist. For help in creating this action, see Adding an action. One or more recurring event
triggers must also exist. For help in creating a recurring event,
see Adding a recurring event trigger.
- From the Vital Record Indicator menu, select True.
- Optional: Enter a vital record description.
- From the Vital Record Review Action menu,
select the action that will be launched with the periodic review and
update cycle of vital records.
- From the Vital Record Review and Update Cycle menu,
select the appropriate recurring event that will trigger the periodic
review of vital records within this volume.
- Click Next to set the security for the
volume.
Set security - Optional
Security settings determine the groups
and users who can access the volume, and control the permissions granted
to each group or user. The security settings that you specify here
might be overridden by FileNet P8 security set
on the entity.
- Add new users or groups.
- Click Add New.
- Select the domain from the Select in menu.
- Select Users or Groups.
- Enter the first few characters of the user or group name and click Search.
- Select one or more names from the list and click Accept.
- Change the permissions of a user or group if desired.
- Click the user or group name in the Title column to change the
access rights for that user or group.
- Select the appropriate Allow or Deny check
box for each permission. Allow overrides group rights to let the user
or group perform the associated functions; Deny overrides group rights
to prevent that user or group from accessing that function.
- Click Accept.
- Click Finish and then OK on
the confirmation page.