Enable or disable archiving

Turn archiving on or off in your digital workplace to hide old and no longer relevant content from users' search results and prevent it from being edited.

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Who can do this?

  • Enterprise administrators
  • Workplace administrators

Turn archiving on

  1. On the Userbar, select Control Panel.
  2. Under Settings, select Global Settings.
  3. Scroll down the page to the Archive section.
  4. Toggle the Enable Archiving setting on.
  5. Select which of the following content types can be archived: 
    • Blog Articles
    • Calendar Events
    • Documents
    • Forum Posts
    • Microblog Posts
    • Wiki Articles
  6. Select how long the Grace Period should be. The options range from 1 to 15, 20, 30, 45, or 60 days.  
    • Content that meets the conditions of an archiving policy is placed in an archiving queue for the length of time specified by the grace period. During the grace period, administrators can review queued articles to postpone or prevent the archiving of content they want to keep searchable and editable. Once the grace period is over, the content will be archived.
  7. At the bottom of the page, select Save.

Turn archiving off

  1. On the Userbar, select Control Panel.
  2. Under Settings, select Global Settings.
  3. Scroll down the page to the Archive section.
  4. Toggle the Enable Archiving setting off.
  5. At the bottom of the page, select Save.