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Archiving and restoring jobs

Archiving takes a job out of the active Jobs list without deleting anything.

Applies to: All customers.

Archiving takes a job out of the active Jobs list without deleting anything. When you archive a job, the job and all of its data objects move out of the everyday view, so the list stays focused on work that is still in flight. The underlying data is preserved, and the job can be brought back later. That is what "archiving is reversible" means: nothing is deleted.

Archived jobs are not gone, just set aside. The portal keeps them in a separate Archived jobs list, which you can search and sort like the main one. Each row there has a Restore action, which returns the job to the active Jobs list so you and your crews can work with it again.

Archiving and restoring are actions for an Org Admin; the entry point is shown to admins in the portal, which is a matter of what the menu displays rather than a hard security wall. You can archive or delete a mis-imported or duplicate job to start clean. Both are available, and the difference worth remembering is that archiving is the reversible one, since the data is preserved and can be restored. On a device, archiving a job that is already finished and exported also frees up space (see the device and account notes), so archiving does double duty as cleanup.


Organizing jobs and the job panel

You can organize a long jobs list into groups, which act like folders. Use New Group to create one, use the group control on a job to add it to a group or change its group, and use Manage Groups to rename or delete a group. Selecting a job also opens its detail panel, where you can copy the job's ID, open it on the map, export its items, check its export and sync status, and archive it.

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