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Archive a Department

Last updated on Oct 24, 2024

Things to Keep in mind before Archiving:

  • Archiving a department hides the department from the users in OKRs, Biz Reviews & KPIs but doesn't delete any related data.

  • Employee Department mapping remains intact for employees belonging to archived departments.

  • For Surveys, Performance reviews, Insights and 1 on 1s the archived departments will still be visible.

To help you get started with this new feature, we have created this help article that outlines the step-by-step process of archiving a department in Peoplebox.

Archiving a Department​:

  • Click on the Profile Icon.

  • Click on the Profile IconClick on Settings.

  • Click on Settings Click on Manage Departments.

  • Click on Manage DepartmentsClick on the 3 dots next to the department you wish to Archive.

  • Click on the 3 dots next to the department you wish to ArchiveClick on Archive.

  • Click on ArchiveRead the instructions carefully.

  • If the department you wish to archive has children, then you would get an option to delete just the department or the department and its children.
    Also archiving a department will only hide the departments from OKRs, Biz Reviews and KPIs. The department/s will still be visible in all other products.

  • Read the instructions carefullySelect the option you want to choose and archive.

  • Select the option you want to choose and ArchiveYou can now try searching for the department and it won't be visible anymore.

  • For the users for whom the departments are pinned, they will be greyed out and marked with an asterisk.

You can now try searching for the department and they won't be visible anymore.

Viewing and Restoring a Department:

  • Click on Manage Departments.

  • Click on Manage DepartmentsClick on the dropdown next to Search a Department.

  • Click on the dropdown next to Search a DepartmentSelect Archived.

  • Select Archived Click on the 3 dots of the department you want to restore.

  • Click on the 3 dots of the department you want to restoreClick on Restore.

  • Click on RestoreClick on Active to see the department restored.

  • Click on Active to see the department restoredDepartment is restored.

  • Once the department is restored it will work the same way it used to work before archiving. Child departments need to be archived separately. If the complete tree was archived at the same time, child departments would also get connected back to the parents.

  • Whereas if child departments were archived separately then the user will have to connect such departments to the correct parent again.

Department is restored