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When a fixed deletion date policy is applied to a dataset, all transactions across all branches will be assigned a deletion date. If the policy specifies an additional cutoff date, only the transactions that were committed before that cutoff will have a deletion date assigned; any later transactions will not be assigned a deletion date.
Data Lifetime will not consider policies from other services (the Retention application, for example) when computing deletion dates for transactions.
When a keep latest view only policy is applied to a dataset, certain actions may occur depending on the status of a transaction:
When a new transaction is added to a dataset with this policy, the following actions will occur:
Similar to other policies, all downstream datasets and transactions will inherit the deletion date or its absence from their parent transactions.