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title: Managing and Un-Archiving Archived Items
slug: managing-and-un-archiving-archived-items
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createdAt: 2024-06-02T22:19:05.627Z
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You may want to review your settings for a show you did two years ago that you have archived.  Or perhaps you made a mistake and archived something you weren't done with.  Ludus makes it easy to locate and bring back that information. This process is referred to as restoring items.

### Manage Archived Events, Collections, and Classes&#x20;

Locating your archived Events, Collections, or Classes can be done by scrolling to the bottom of the Events Page, Or the Collections pages and clicking the **View Archived Events** button.&#x20;

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The button will be labele&#x64;**&#x20;View Archived Collections** for the Collections / Classes pages.
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Clicking the button will take you to the list of all your Archived Events or Collections/Classes.  There is a Search option at the top so you can search by title if you wish.

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Once you have located your event or collection/class. You can see Reports or access settings from the same buttons you normally would use if the item wasn't archived.  &#x20;

If you wish to Un-archive the item you can do so by clicking **More**, next to your event, or **Options**, next to a collection or class. and then select **Recover**.


To recover an Archived Event time on a current event.  Click on the **Show Archived Event Times&#x20;**&#x64;rop-down listed directly under the last event time.&#x20;

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Next, select **Options** and **Recover** to restore the event time.

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### Manage Archived Fundraisers

To locate an Archived Fundraiser scroll to the bottom of the Fundraiser page and click on the **View Archived Fundraiser** button to view and review past fundraisers.

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You will now see all fundraisers that have been Archived.  You can view all the same data on the archived fundraiser that is available on a current fundraiser.

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To recover an archived fundraiser, click **Options** next to the Fundraiser and then select **Recover**.

### Manage Archived Fundraising Levels and Categories

Archived fundraising levels can be found by clicking the **View Archived Levels** button on the Levels Page within Fundraising.   These can be recovered by clicking Options and selecting **Recover**, next to the level.

Fundraising **Categories** will show as Deleted on the Categories page. However, they are also recoverable.  These will show in a Deleted Categories section on the Categories page.  Simply click **Reover** to re-activate the Categorie.

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Archiving these items will not remove the levels or categories that donations were made towards in the past.
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### Manage and recover Archive Marketing Campaigns

If you find yourself wanting to revisit a prior Marketing Campaign you can do so by clicking the **View Archived Campaigns** button located at the bottom of the campaign page.

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On the archived Campaigns page, you can view the activity log for the campaign or recover the campaign by clicking **Options** below the campaign and selecting **Recover**.

### Recover an Archived Seat Chart

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It is possible to recover an archived seat chart by navigating to the Seating Chart area located under **More**, on the top navigation bar and clicking **View Archived Charts** located at the bottom of the page.

On the Archived seat chart page you can click on the 3 dots to the right of the chart and select **Un-Archive** to make it useable again.

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### Recover Archived Passes

Archived passes can be recovered for any reason by clicking **View Archived Passes** at the bottom of the passes page. Simply click **Recover** to the right of the pass you would like to recover.

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### Recover Archived Volunteer Opportunities or Shifts within an Opportunity

It is possible to recover Volunteer Opportunities that were Archived if need be.

To recover an archived **Opportunity,&#x20;**&#x73;croll down to the bottom of the Opportunities page and click on **View Archived Opportunities**.

Select **More** to the right of the Opportunity you wish to recover and selec&#x74;**&#x20;Recover** to restore it.

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To recover an **Archived Shift** from an Active Opportunity, select Show Archived Shifts, which is located just below all the shifts for that opportunity, and click Options, then click Recover to restore the shift.

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### Recover Archived Forms

Forms that have been archived can be recovered to use again if desired.  To do so, select **View Archived Forms** from the Forms area. (More, on the top Navigation, then Forms)

Select the Form you wish to recover and click the Recover button to the right of it to make it active again.

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