How to unarchive a project

Key point: Restore an an archived project.

Prerequisites

You must have a role of administrator.

Unarchiving a project restores all its contents, including project templates.
The parent project must exist for a subproject to be unarchived.

Projects can be restored from the following pages:

If you have just archived the project from the project maintenance page – you are automatically taken to its project dashboard.
Your groups and invitations page, you can either:

Click the Dashboard button to the right of the project, or
Click the Unarchive button to open the unarchive dialog.

The archived projects & groups page, find the project to unarchive.

From the project dashboard

Immediately after archiving a project, you see the archived project’s dashboard.

You can also view the project dashboard at another time:

From the groups and invitations page – select the Archived groups tab, then click the Dashboard button.
From the archived projects & groups page – click the icon to the right of a project name, then click the dashboard button.

On the dashboard, you see the following warnings:

This project is currently archived.

When unarchived the project will be called exampleprojectname.

Click the Unarchive project button. You see an Unarchive project? dialog. You see the name of the project you are unarchiving.
If you want to also restore all the archived groups under the project, select Unarchive all project's groups.
The option to re-index the groups’ contents after restoring is selected by default. Clear the checkbox to restore all the project’s archived groups without re-indexing (many group functions are not available without re-indexing).
Click the:

Yes button – to restore the project. You see a progress bar and confirmation that the project has been renamed (the prefix archive has been removed).
If no issues with the unarchive process, the progress bar closes automatically and then you see the project dashboard.
Or click No – to close the dialog.

From the Groups and invitations page

Instructions for unarchiving a project from this page are the same as from the project dashboard, however only projects you are a member of are listed. Another difference is that because you aren’t on a page specific to the project, the warning message has a little less detail.

From the Archived projects & groups page

From this page, administrators can:

Click the red Unarchive button to the right of the project you want to restore. You see a Confirm unarchive dialog showing the name of the project you are unarchiving.
If you want to also restore all the archived groups under the project, select Unarchive all project's groups .
The option to re-index the groups’ contents after restoring is selected by default. Clear the checkbox to restore all the project’s archived groups without re-indexing (many group functions are not available without re-indexing).
Click the:

Yes button – to restore the project. You see a progress bar and confirmation that the project has been renamed (the prefix archive has been removed).

Click the icon on the right to close the progress bar and remove the project name from the list of archives.

No button – closes the dialog.