Sometimes cutoff is event specific (e.g., when someone leaves the organization, when a piece of land is sold, etc.) and the date isn't known. In this case, I have to manually cutoff the record. However, sometimes, a whole folder needs to be cutoff. 

Of course you can select all the records within a folder to do this, another option is to cutoff the folder. Has anyone done this?

I was thinking about using tokens: Each of the folders (e.g., personnel file) has a field in the metadata that represents that the folder is still active. The template used for importing documents has a default token of %(Parent). So by placing an entry into the folder, that value is passed into the token, keeping the record active. Then, if I switch the value of the field in the parent folder to cutoff the folder: will this apply to all the documents within it with the %(Parent) token? Thereby cutting off the whole folder?

Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.