Use cases for Archive

[Kathrynpercy]

Our team has been discussing possible use cases for archiving content, posts etc on our forum. We'd love to hear from others on how they use this feature in your community. 

[SyedSa · Accepted solution]

@Kathrynpercy, 
Content archiving should mainly be done to ensure content stays fresh, and that no out-of-date content appears on the community.I have found ideas, an article and discussion related to this on search:

• TKB itself on content archiving: https://community.khoros.com/t5/Content-Archive/Archive-community-content/ta-p/550153
• Archiving policy ideas: https://community.khoros.com/t5/Khoros-Community-Product/Community-Content-Archival-Policy/m-p/64974...
• Best practices discussion: https://community.khoros.com/t5/Community-Strategy-Discussions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-archi...

Does this help?

[Kathrynpercy]

Thanks so much, I'll read through these. 

[SyedSa]

You are welcome!

[JasonHill]

My priority is to make sure the community is as valuable a resource as possible @Kathrynpercy. So archiving is helpful if content is no longer valuable and therefore simply distracting people when they are searching for content of value.  It's not the only weapon of course - tools like promoted search and moving posts to combine discussions can also be used...

Jason