Archiving Pages

Archiving a page

When you archive a page, it stays in its location in the content tree, but it isn't visible on the live site. You can archive pages in one of the following ways:

• Manually archiving
• Archiving multiple pages at once

Manually archiving a page

When a page reaches a step that is immediately followed by the Archived step, you can click the Archive button to archive the page.

Archiving multiple pages at once

You can archive entire sections of your website using the List mode.

1. In the Pages application, switch to the Listing mode.
2. Navigate to the page, which is a parent of the pages that you want to archive.
3. Select the pages you want to archive. You have two options:
   1. Check the boxes next to pages you want to archive.
   2. Select All pages in the drop-down list below the page list.
4. Select Archive in the drop-down list marked (select an action) and click OK to confirm. You will be redirected to a page with the list of pages to be archived.
5. (Optional) Adjust the following settings:
   1. Archive also all child pages
   2. Perform Undo check-out for checked out pages - if checked, all pages that are checked out will be checked in and the changes made during the last check-out will be discarded.
6. Click Yes to start archiving the pages.

Viewing a page's workflow history

For all pages under a workflow, the system records every move from one step to another. That means that you can review all the workflow actions that were performed on the page, the users who performed them and comments. To view the workflow history of a page, select it in the content tree of the Pages application and navigate to Properties -> Workflow.

Restarting a workflow cycle

When a page reaches the Published or Archived step (whichever comes first), it completes its workflow cycle. That means that the page has gone all the way from the Edit step through the whole process to the final step. To start a new cycle and put the page back to the edit step, do the following:

• If you're using basic workflow, open the page in the Pages application, make changes to it and click Save. This will create a new version of the page.
• If you're using advanced workflow, click Create new version. When you start a new cycle, the system re-evaluates workflow scopes that cover this page and chooses the workflow with the highest priority.