Get retention period through Powershell

[DanielJ]

When looking at the values returned by Get-VBORepository, RetentionPeriod is a "friendly" value like "180 days" or "1 year". But when trying to extract this value for a report, it changes to (for example) "180" or "Year1". Is there some way of getting the friendly value, or do I have to build it up from the values of RetentionPeriod, CustomRetentionPeriod and CustomRetentionPeriodType? That doesn't seem straightforward. For repositories with 180 days retention, I get RetentionPeriod = 180, CustomRetentionPeriod = nothing and CustomRetentionPeriodType = "Days". That's easy enough, but for a repository with 1 year retention, I get RetentionPeriod = "Year1", CustomRetentionPeriod = still nothing and CustomRetentionPeriodType = "Months". This would be a lot more logical if there was one value for retention units (days, months, years) and one value for the number of such units.

[Polina]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the feedback, makes sense. I'll ask the team to look into it.