When is a draft retrievable — and when should it not be?

Retrieval systems and content lifecycles are usually managed separately, which produces the same three failures everywhere: drafts retrievable before approval, superseded versions retrievable after replacement, and destroyed records retrievable after disposition.

Indexing in Centralpoint is tied to record lifecycle, so publication admits a record to the surface and disposition removes it, without depending on a job that may or may not have run. Because index state and record state live in the same environment, the two can be compared — which is what makes staleness a reportable condition rather than a latent one.