How to 'archive' Alfresco Share sites? (including wiki etc)

[nicolasraoul]

What to do when there are hundreds of sites and it becomes difficult to find the right site?
How to "archive" old sites that nobody uses anymore?
The documents can be archived easily but how about the Wiki, data lists, etc?

We suggest our customer to create a site for each big project or event, so in 5 years they will probably be a great quantity of sites.

What is your usual advice regarding this?
Would you recommend against trying to "archive" any site?
Thanks!
Nicolas Raoul

[loftux]

My thoughts on this (a topic many will run inte eventually)

Change all members (besides the one that needs to remain as Site Manager) to Consumers. That way they content is still searchable and accessible without possibility to alter.
If no one needs read access the content, remove all users, and just add a group that has access, like an "Archive managers" group. That way it gets filtered out when searching for content and sites.

Maybe change the site title to inlude (Archived) in the name if you keep consumer access. Then you can possibly filter site searches not to include them with some customization.