Auto-Archive In Control Center

Paul Newcome

I think an auto-archive feature in Control Center would be great. It is currently still a manual process where a program lead has to go into Control Center and run the archiving automation.

What would be ideal is if we could set it up so that (for example) once the Status on the Summary Sheet is changed to "Ready For Archive" the Control Center Archiving automatically runs and executes everything you set it up to do.

It would save time and hassle and prevents having to worry about someone forgetting or dashboards and reports not being 100% up to date until a program lead is able to run the archiving.

kjkonkey

I second this request! You already have to define the archive criteria, so having to manually run seems unnecessary. You should be able to set a schedule for the task to run automatically.

Heather B

Allow for set up of auto archiving in control center

Mike Ferringer

Auto-archiving in Control Center should be an available option. Just as auto-provisioning of a new project allows for fully autonomous project set up after intake, we should be able to have this same level of automation at the conclusion of a project so it can be archived. Criteria are established in the archive setup to designate which projects will be impacted. Why can't the actual archive process be triggered using this or other criteria such as "Ready for Archive" and/or combine that with a time based trigger (for example; "Archive every 30 days where "Ready for Archive" is checked". This is not the first time that this idea/request for new features has been made by the Smartsheet Community.