Retention and deletion · The mechanism · Element
The automation
What performs the deletion.
The part
What it is
A scheduled job, a platform setting, or a manual process. Only the first two happen reliably.
Whether it actually ran is worth checking, since silent failure is the normal mode for scheduled jobs nobody watches.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.