This process empowers users to add a layer of temporary protection from deletion or alteration to numerous potentially important documents at once, without needing to know in advance exactly which documents will turn out to be relevant. When pending litigation arises, for example, a member of the organization’s legal team submits the Bulk Legal Hold Request form, specifying the reason for the hold with one or more keywords to search for in the repository and whether the search should be repository-wide or limited to certain folders. A workflow runs the search and automatically provides the approver, for example, a supervisor on the legal team, with the number of entries to which the hold will be applied, as well as a link to preview them in the repository. This information enables the approver to make any necessary adjustments to the keywords or search scope before approving. Once the request is approved, the workflow automatically applies to all the relevant entries. When the hold is no longer needed (e.g., the litigation is avoided), the requester clicks a link in their approval notification email that efficiently launches the Bulk Legal Hold Release form for them, with all the pre-populated information necessary to automatically find and release that particular hold from all entries.