Managing Archives

Harvest archives clients, projects, people, and tasks you no longer need instead of deleting them. Information is kept separately, but is still accessible.

Archiving vs. Deleting

Archiving stores information you no longer need in a separate part of your Harvest account, but it doesn’t delete it from your account. Archives can be accessed and reactivated if you need them later. Tracked time is not affected by archiving, and you can still run reports on archived clients and projects. You can not, however, track time on archived projects, clients, or tasks.

In Harvest, projects, clients, people, or tasks can only be deleted from your account if no time has been tracked to them.

Accessing and Reactivating Archives

You can find your archives by going to the Manage tab for projects, clients, people, or tasks, and clicking the Manage Archives link. To reactivate archives:

1. Go to the Manage Archives page.
2. Click the refresh arrow (for projects, clients, and tasks) or link (for people) to reactivate the archive.

This information is now stored with the other active information in your account.

For archived people and tasks, you need to reactivate them in Manage > People or Manage > Tasks and reactivate them on any projects for which you’d like to be able to track time for them. To reactivate people or tasks on a project:

1. Go to Manage > Projects and click into the project for which you need to reactivate the person or task.
2. Click the refresh button next the person or task you need to reactivate.