Deactivating department-specific trash rules

Last published : Apr 17, 2026
To deactivate a department-specific trash rule
  1. In the left navigation pane, click Departments.
  2. Search for and select the department for which you want to activate a trash rule.
    Note: Alta Surveillance lists all departments. You can use the filtering options to search the required department. Options include filtering by department name, exception employees, and reviewers associated with the department.
  3. Navigate to the Trash tab.
  4. Select an activated trash rule you want to deactivate, and then click Deactivate on the action bar.
    Note: If an application-specific trash rule is deactivated, the scope indicates Application. A deactivated application-specific trash rule creates a department-specific trash rule with a deactivated status. This process ensures that Alta Surveillance ignores the global application-specific trash rule that was previously propagated to the selected department.