Rule: General

Name. Enter the name you want to use for this rule.
Description. Enter a description of the rule.
Action to perform on files matching the rule. Select the action that you want to apply to all files that match the selection rules.
You can select one of the following:
- Archive. Enterprise Vault archives files that match the rule.
- Do not archive. Enterprise Vault does not perform any action on files that match the rule.
- Delete. Enterprise Vault deletes the file and does not archive it. The file is not placed in the Windows Recycle Bin.
- Archive copy and reset. Enterprise Vault archives a copy of files that match the rule but leaves the original files on the disk.
  
  When you select this option Enterprise Vault automatically enables Filter files using attributes on the Attributes tab and, next to Ready for Archiving on the Attributes tab, selects Set.

Filter files using the filename. Enter the file specification for the files that you want to be chosen by this rule.

Specify File is one of to select files that match the file specification, or File is not one of to exclude files that match the specification.

To specify a file group, select the required file group from the list.

Note:

File groups are in the "File Groups" Administration Console container, under the "File" policies container. From there you can view and edit the details of the supplied file groups, and create new file groups if required.

Or select Other and enter a file specification. You can use the normal DOS wildcards * and ? in the specification. You can have multiple file specifications, separated by commas. For example:
```
*.bmp,*.jpg,*.htm*
```
Note:

*.* matches only those file names that have extensions, such as .txt, .pdf, .doc. To match all file names, both with and without extensions, you must enter * as the file type.