What does the Archive Project do in Jira Cloud?

[Owen Guion]

In the manage projects view, on the right side, three dots expands to 

• Project Settings
• Move to Trash
• Archive

Selecting archive removes the project from view but unlike Jira server, there appear to be no access to the archived projects list.

Can you restore these archived projects?

[Ollie Guan · Accepted solution]

Hello @Owen Guion ,

Only Jira admins can restore the project.

[Owen Guion]

Ollie,

Which level Jira Admins?

• Project Admin, no
• Site, can archive, apparently cannot restore
• Org admin - what Jira officially term 'administrators' = yes

[Jack Brickey]

I learned just this week that Cloud Premium is rolling out the Archive and Trash project feature. I have not yet seen any documentation for these but as Ollie says these features are for admins. Archive will hide the project from non-admin users and Trash will place them in a ‘trashcan’ that can later be emptied, similar to how files can be placed in the trash on PC.

[Owen Guion]

Jack,

When you refer to admins here do you mean site-admins or org-admins?

Who has the ability to archive?

[Jack Brickey]

TBH, I cannot definitely say as I’m on Standard and I haven’t seen any docs. Now, that said the various admin terms on cloud have always left me scratching my head but to be fair I have spent time worrying about it or researching either. Maybe I will now. 😀 I have always assumed “site-admin” for cloud belongs to the host (Atlassian) and the Org Admin is what folks often refer to as site admin. Maybe they are the same and I’m just overthinking it.😉 can you point me to definitions of the two? Terms I typically use are Org/site-admin and Project admins. With that in mind my question is can Project admins archive a project?

[Owen Guion]

Jack,

For the difference, see here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/manage-groups-744721627.html?_ga=2.80668311.1446728396.1594374518-679685836.1591356844

From this thread: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Cloud-what-difference-between-site-Admin-Admin-and-JIRA-Admin/qaq-p/648822

I am not sure this is entirely accurate, given it points to site-admin as a user manager and administrator (org-admin) as managing

• plug-ins
• fields, screens, etc.