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title: "Legal Hold"
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published: 2026-09-23T13:20:18Z
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# Legal Hold

**COBBLESTONE SOFTWARE**

Contract Insight — User Guide

**Legal Hold**

*Module: Purchase Orders › Purchase Order Details › Legal Hold*

**Note:** Each procedure in this guide begins at the Contract Insight homepage, so any section can be followed on its own. Custom fields are configurable, so the exact field list on a contract category record may vary between environments.

# 1. Overview

Placing a **Purchase Order** on legal hold locks its fields from editing and prevents attachment changes for compliance purposes, following the same pattern confirmed live on Contract and Request records in this environment: an "**Add Legal Hold**" item under **Manage Record Actions** in the record's **Actions** dropdown, applied immediately (producing the frozen-record banner and hiding Edit All) and lifted via the same menu item once it reads "**Remove Legal Hold**." This entry was not independently re-tested on a live **Purchase Order** record, but the identical **Actions**-menu structure confirmed on two other record types in this environment makes it a reasonably confident extrapolation that Purchase Orders follow the same unified mechanism, in place of the legacy wiki's separate "Set Legal Hold" side-menu control for this record type.

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# 2. Key Elements

- The live application's **Add Legal Hold** / **Remove Legal Hold** mechanism, confirmed on Contract and Request records, is expected to apply identically to **Purchase Order** records via that record's **Actions** dropdown.
- Applying the hold is expected to produce the same frozen-record banner (edits, deletion, and file/note additions blocked) and hide the Edit All button.
- This entry was not independently re-tested on a live **Purchase Order** record; the grounding here extrapolates from the identical mechanism confirmed on Contracts and Requests rather than from a direct test of this record type.
- The legacy wiki described a "Set Legal Hold" side-menu control specific to Purchase Orders — in the redesigned application this is unified into the same **Actions** dropdown used across every record type.