How do I archive a page?
Asked by Logan Jaynes:

I've been after this functionality for 10 years now. Has Atlassian finally allowed its paying customers the most basic and necessary function of page archiving? Or do I just have to wait until 2024 when confluence goes end of life and presumably I will have to spend 6 years porting the server installation over to THE CLOUD?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Levente Szabo _Midori_
body: Relevant tutorials for both Confluence Cloud and Data Center users:

* [How to archive a page in Confluence?](https://www.midori-global.com/blog/2022/12/20/how-to-archive-a-confluence-page?utm_source=cac&utm_medium=cac-comment-1684144&utm_campaign=gh)
* [How to archive a Confluence space?](https://www.midori-global.com/blog/2023/01/05/how-to-archive-a-confluence-space?utm_source=cac&utm_medium=cac-comment-1684144&utm_campaign=gh)

As Atlassian confirmed, automated page archiving is not on the roadmap for Confluence Data Center (Server is out of the question now, obviously).

For **Confluence Cloud and Data Center** , [Better Content Archiving](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=cac&utm_medium=cac-comment-1684144&utm_campaign=gh) is a popular option that has been the go-to [Confluence content lifecycle management solution](https://www.midori-global.com/blog/2023/01/18/confluence-content-lifecycle-management?utm_source=cac&utm_medium=cac-comment-1684144&utm_campaign=gh) for a long time. It offers automatic page statuses based on [configurable rules](https://www.midori-global.com/products/better-content-archiving-for-confluence/cloud/documentation/configure/content-status-schemes?utm_source=cac&utm_medium=cac-comment-1684144&utm_campaign=gh) (expired, not viewed, ready to archive pages), custom email notifications to content owners, review workflows, and automated archiving.

[Watch a video on how to archive Confluence pages automatically \>\>](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQpiB_PMB7k)

*(Please note that Better Content Archiving is a paid and supported app and I'm part of the team developing it.)*


author: Thiago Masutti
body: Hi [@Logan Jaynes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4379797)   
Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

We really don't have the page archiving feature on Confluence Data Center yet.  
Although it's not part of our current [Roadmap](https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap/data-center), we are actively shipping new features to Data Center.

While page archiving isn't an out-of-the-box feature, we do have some Marketplace Apps that offer many features around Content lifecycle, such as:

* [Brikit Content Flow](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221715/brikit-content-flow?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)
* [Better Content Archiving](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

As Nic mentioned in his answer, you can use the [Space Archiving](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/archive-a-space-284368719.html) feature to archive pages by moving pages to archived spaces. Another way is to use page restrictions as described [in this KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-archiving-content).

I hope that helps.

Kind regards,  
Thiago Masutti


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Space archiving has been available for years, and moving a page into an archived space has been possible since that happened. Not quite page archiving, but with some basic standards (like naming archived spaces as archive-original-space-name) it's not too hard.

Migrating Confluence to Atlassian Cloud is not hard. If it takes you 6 weeks to move a huge install to the Cloud, you're doing it wrong.

comments: author: Jason Lansdowne
body: How do you move a page into the archived space? When I try to move the page, you can't enter the name of the archived space into the dialog. The only way I've found to do this is to unarchive the page first and then rearchive it which is not a usable workaround.


author: Patrick Vanhoof
body: Open the page under which you want to move the page, then move the page and select the correct page under the Recently viewed option. I think this is the fastest way to do this.

You do not have to unarchive the target space.


author: Lissa Meade
body: [Page archival is a standard feature](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/archive-pages/). If you don't have the ability to archive pages then I suspect a permissions issue. Have you checked that?

comments: author: Patrick Vanhoof
body: That's a cloud feature I think, not available on server?


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