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Archive and Restore Board Items
What is it?
Finding a specific section of your board no longer relevant? Done with a workspace task and no longer need it on display? Or simply finished working on a specific board? Just archive those items to remove them from your board so that you can focus only on the things that require your attention. Don’t worry – you can easily restore these items if you need to.
Who has access?
- Teams users:
- Board members except for viewers and external users can archive tasks and sections.
- Board admins can archive a board.
- Platforms:
- Restoring archived items is currently on Web only.
How does it work?
- Tasks can be archived from the quick-action menu or via the main task view.
- Sections can be archived from the board’s menu.
- You can recover any archived workspace tasks or sections from the archive-menu.
How to archive/ restore a workspace task
✔️ Web
You can either:
- Open the task and press this icon
to archive it OR
- Press the 3 dot menu (quick-actions) next to the task title
and click on
Archive
To restore it:
- Press the 3 dot menu (quick-actions) next to the task title
- Click on “view archived items”.
- Click on the “tasks” tab and press the 3 dots on the right and select bring back to board.
Note: At this time the restore feature is on the web version only.
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open the task.
- Press Archive at the bottom of the menu.
How to archive/ restore a board section
✔️ Web
- Press the 3 dot menu (quick-actions) next to the task title
and click on “Archive this section”.
To restore it:
- Press the 3 dot menu (quick-actions) next to the task title
- Click on “view archived items”.
- Click on the “sections” tab and press the 3 dots on the right and select bring back to board.
Note: At this time the restore feature is on the web version only.
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open the 3 dots menu
- Press on the “Sections” menu.
- Press on the right part of the section and tap on the bin icon.
- Press on Archive.
How to archive an entire board
Please note that once the board has been archived it is irreversible.
✔️ Web
You can either:
- Press the 3 dot menu (quick-actions) next to the task title
and click on “Archive Board”.
- Press the “Add a new board” from the left menu -> Browse boards-> Leave board.
Note: It will only let you archive a board you are an admin for.
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open the board.
- Tap on the 3 dots menu
- Press Archive.
Note: It will only let you archive a board you are an admin for.