Archiving a project

- In this video, we'll archive a project.…JIRA makes it possible to archive your projects.…You might need to do this if you have an old project…but you wanna keep the project's data…for future auditing purposes.…There's two ways to do this.…There's online archiving and offline archiving.…With online archiving,…you can basically hide a project…or make it read-only.…There's also the option for offline archiving.…With offline archiving, you do have the option…to restore a deleted project.…We'll start with online archiving.…

When you archive a project online,…that means that all of the project's issue data…is still in your live JIRA instance.…With online archiving, it's much easier…to access the project if you need to.…First let's take a look at hiding a project.…A hidden project is still gonna show up…in the Administrators menu.…But it won't appear in the Browse Projects list,…and no one will be able to search,…view or modify any of the project issues.…The way to hide a project…is actually an interesting workaround.…