It’s recommended to review the questions below before starting to create the Archiving Policies.

• Which objects and related objects do you want to archive and why? 
• What is the scheduled frequency the Archive should run (weekly / daily / monthly)?
  • ​​​​​​​What day of the week or month and time should the archive policy run?
• Who has the ability to set up archiving policies (Admins only)?
  • Permission Sets can be assigned to appropriate system admins
  • OwnBackup_CDE_Policy permission set will allow the user to create, delete and edit the policy
• Who needs to see the archived data? (Admins only / End users / Auditors / etc.) 
• Who has access to the unarchive records? ( Admins only / End users / Auditors / etc.)
  • Permission Sets can be assigned to appropriate users
  • OwnBackup_Unarchive permission set will allow the user to unarchive records

Example of use cases & Queries 

NOTE:  For testing purposes, we recommend starting out with a low limit to initially test the policy

1. Archiving Tasks 

• Object: Task 
• Use Case: Archiving Tasks that are associated with a specific record type of contact (ie RecordTypeID = ‘abc’)  and last modified more than 2 years ago
• Limit = 5, will archive 5 tasks in each run and its related objects 
• Preview:  Id, Activity Date, Category (custom field) Description, Owner ID, Subject, Status

Example query: Select Id FROM Task WHERE WhoId IN (SELECT Id FROM Contact WHERE RecordTypeid = 'abc') AND ActivityDate < LAST_N_DAYS: 730 LIMIT 5

2. Archiving Cases 

• Object: Case 
• Use Cases: Archive cases that meet the following criteria:
  • Status is closed
  • Created more than 30 days ago 
• Limit = 5000,  will archive 5000 cases in each run and its related objects 
• Preview: Id, Case Number, Type,  Sub Category (custom field), Issue (custom field)
• Example Query:
  Select Id, CaseNumber, Type, Sub_Category_c, Issue_c from Case WHERE Status = 'Closed' AND CreatedDate < LAST_N_DAYS: 30 LIMIT 5000

3. Archiving Cases From a Specific Account  

• Object: Case 
• Use Cases: Archive cases that meet the following criteria:
  • Status is closed
  • Created more than 30 days ago
  • And belongs to an account with Id=1234  
• Limit = 5000,  will archive 5000 cases in each run and its related objects 
• Preview: Id, Case Number, Type,  Sub Category (custom field), Issue (custom field)
• Example Query: Select id From Case Where accountId IN (SELECT id from Account where id ='1234') AND Status = 'Closed' AND CreatedDate Last_N_Days 30 LIMIT 5000

4. Archiving Attachments  

• Object: Attachment  
• Use Cases: Archiving attachments that their:
  • The parent is an Opportunity in a stage that is either ‘Signed Off’ Or 'Asbestos Completed' 
  • The Opportunity Close Date is more than 6 months in the past
• Limit = 2500,  will archive 2500 attachments in each run and its related objects 
• Preview: Id, Parent ID, Created Date
• Example Query: SELECT Id, ParentId From Attachment Where ParentId IN (SELECT Id FROM Opportunity WHERE (StageName='Signed Off' OR StageName='Asbestos Completed') AND CloseDate < N_MONTHS_AGO:6) LIMIT 2500

   

5. Archiving Contacts  

• Object: Contact  
• Use Cases: Archiving contacts that their:
  • Archiver__c field is set to True 
• Limit = 1000,  will archive 2500 contacts in each run and its related objects 
• Preview: Id, Parent ID, Created Date
• Example Query: Select Id  From Contact Where  Archiver__c = true Limit 1000