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== Archiving ==
== Archiving ==


Tasks can be archived off the active board without being deleted. Archiving sets a task's <code><nowiki>archived_at</nowiki></code> timestamp, which is orthogonal to both its stage and its review status — a task can be in any stage, with any review status, and archived or not, independently.
Once a task is finished, you probably don't want it cluttering up your board forever — but you also don't want to delete it and lose the history. That's what archiving is for: it tucks a task out of the active board while keeping everything about it fully intact and searchable.


=== Archiving individual tasks ===
Archiving is independent of a task's column and review status — a task can be in any column, at any stage of review, and archived or not, all separately.


Any task with <code><nowiki>tasks:archive</nowiki></code> permission can be archived or unarchived from its detail page.
=== Archiving one task at a time ===


=== Bulk archiving ===
Any task can be archived (or brought back) right from its detail page.


The Archived page (<code><nowiki>archived.php</nowiki></code>) offers a bulk "archive all done" action — archiving every task currently sitting in a stage flagged <code><nowiki>is_done</nowiki></code> (see [[RefractTrack_Stages|Stages]]) in one step, rather than archiving tasks one at a time.
=== Archiving in bulk ===


=== Effect on export/import ===
The Archived page offers a one-click "archive all done" action, which sweeps up every task currently sitting in a column marked as a completion point (see [[RefractTrack_Stages|Stages]]) in a single step — much faster than archiving a big batch of finished tasks one by one.


Archived status is preserved through [[RefractTrack_Export_and_Import|Export and Import]]: a task's <code><nowiki>archived_at</nowiki></code> value round-trips through both CSV and JSON export/import, so archived tasks stay archived after being re-imported into another project or instance.
=== Archived tasks travel with your data ===
 
If you back up a project, archived tasks stay marked as archived — so restoring from a backup or moving tasks into another project doesn't accidentally bring them back onto the active board. See [[RefractTrack_Export_and_Import|Export and Import]].


=== Related pages ===
=== Related pages ===
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* [[RefractTrack_Stages|Stages]]
* [[RefractTrack_Stages|Stages]]
* [[RefractTrack_Export_and_Import|Export and Import]]
* [[RefractTrack_Export_and_Import|Export and Import]]
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Latest revision as of 22:49, 11 September 2026

Archiving

Once a task is finished, you probably don't want it cluttering up your board forever — but you also don't want to delete it and lose the history. That's what archiving is for: it tucks a task out of the active board while keeping everything about it fully intact and searchable.

Archiving is independent of a task's column and review status — a task can be in any column, at any stage of review, and archived or not, all separately.

Archiving one task at a time

Any task can be archived (or brought back) right from its detail page.

Archiving in bulk

The Archived page offers a one-click "archive all done" action, which sweeps up every task currently sitting in a column marked as a completion point (see Stages) in a single step — much faster than archiving a big batch of finished tasks one by one.

Archived tasks travel with your data

If you back up a project, archived tasks stay marked as archived — so restoring from a backup or moving tasks into another project doesn't accidentally bring them back onto the active board. See Export and Import.