Neither move nor destruction orders can happen without human intervention. Documents that have come to maturity based on their membership in particular file plans are analyzed by a person for verification so that they can be destroyed or archived. If the document contains an electronic file, destruction or archiving can be done automatically by AssetWise after verification and approval. Documents representing non-electronic media must be physically archived or destroyed.

After each scheduled calculation of all the move and / or destruction instructions, the criteria may list pending actions that need to be processed by the Records Administrator. The pending documents can be viewed and processed globally in the Pending Actions topic of root level file plans, or users can process the documents from individual child file plans.