Archiving Documents
Archive docs that are no longer being used to keep your channels uncluttered.
Regularly archiving docs will help you maintain a clean knowledge base structure, and can help your team more easily find the content that matters to them.
Archive docs
In the sidebar, click the three-dot menu to the right of your doc and choose
Archive. Alternatively, you will also find this option by right-clicking the doc directly. You can set Ask and Search to include or only go through archived docs by selecting
Archived as a Source type.View archived docs
You can see archived docs in context (in their original position) by hovering over
Channels in the sidebar and then enabling the Show archived docs option. They’ll appear faded and crossed out in the sidebar.
Alternatively, you can access the
Archive at the bottom of the sidebar.Restore or permanently delete docs
In the
Archive docs will be sorted by Last Archived date. You will be able to restore archived docs or permanently delete them if you have the required permissions.The Archive won't be cleared automatically.
Documents that have been permanently deleted cannot be recovered.
Who can archive or delete docs?
Channel permissions apply to all docs within them, even archived ones.
Private docs will remain private (restricted to the person or people who originally had access) even after being archived.
Reader permissions in a channel won't allow a member of your team to archive or permanently delete docs from that channel.
Writer permissions in a channel will let a member of your team archive, but not delete them permanently unless they are the author.
Admin permissions in a channel will let a member of your team archive a doc and permanently delete it.