Manual Archiving

Summary

In addition to template level life cycle policies, single workspaces can be archived manually if archiving is enabled. This page covers how groups are manually archived.

Enable Manual Archiving

Manual workspace archiving can be enabled from Teamwork web part settings by setting Enable archiving toggle to On. This selection can be found under Privacy Settings

Enable archiving

Archive Group

A group owner can archive group that is no longer on use. Archived groups are filtered out from groups listing by default and it is not possible to edit archived group content.

Step-by-step Archive group

  • Select Group Info from group card under three dots
  • Select Archive Group from site info

Archive group

  • Confirm archiving from confirmation dialog. If group to be archived contains both site and team confirmation is asked whether you want archive both team and site or only team.

  • Note that even if you choose to archive the site, the Group Owners will still have the permissions to edit the site contents as Office 365 assigns them as Site Collection Administrators.

Archiving confirmation

  • Archiving process started message is shown and archiving the group is started

Note

If team is archived all conversations are set read-only

Archive Site

A group owner can archive site that is no longer on use. Archived sites are filtered out from sites listing by default and it is not possible to edit archived site content.

Step-by-step Archive site

  • Select Site Info from group card under three dots
  • Select Archive Site from group info

Archive group

  • Confirm archiving from confirmation dialog.

Archiving confirmation

  • Archiving process started message is shown and archiving the site is started

Note

Site collection administrators are not removed when the site is archived. They will still have write access to the site even after archiving has completed.

Archive Workspaces

A workspace owner can archive group that is no longer on use. Archived workspaces are filtered out from workspace listing by default and it is not possible to edit archived group content.

Step-by-step Archive workspace

  • Select Site Info from group card under three dots

  • Select Archive Site from group info

Archive group

  • Confirm archiving from confirmation dialog.

Archiving confirmation

  • Archiving process started message is shown and archiving the site is started

Filter Archived / Active

User can view only active or archived or both groups/sites by filtering the dashboard. By default, only active groups and sites are shown. User can see archived groups/sites by using State filter and selecting Archived selection.

Filtering archived sites/groups