Archiving a project

[Ramakrishnan Venkatesan]

Hi Team,

I created my Atlassian JIRA account through cloud. The steps that I followed are

jira.atlassian.com -> Try it Free -> Jira Software -> Try Cloud

I created a project and I am trying to archive the project following the instructions from https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/archiving-a-project-938847621.html. So even if it falls in the Jira Software data center (i am assuming cloud is DC) category, I am not getting the option to archive the project.

The only option I am getting is Project settings when I click the hamburger icon (options). And nothing in the project settings either to archive a project.

Please suggest on how can this be archived.

Thanks and Regards,

Rama

[Ramakrishnan Venkatesan]

Mine was the free one, so it was Evaluation licensing I guess.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Did you give it a DC licence?  (It'll work with a Server licence, but won't enable the DC functions.  Evaluation is fine)

[Ramakrishnan Venkatesan]

@Aswin AchuthanWeird stuff. So just out of curiosity, I also downloaded the JIRA Software DC.

Running it from my localhost, still unable to view the Archive option.

Is there anything as a pre-requisite? Please note that I am the admin. There is no other user.

Thanks,
Rama

[Ramakrishnan Venkatesan]

Thanks Aswin. Yeah I realized that as soon as I dropped this note.

I started working on hiding the project. I was just hoping that some one might surprise me with a better solution! :)

[Aswin Achuthan]

@Ramakrishnan Venkatesan Jira Cloud is not Data center version, and it doesn't have option to Archive a project (as mentioned in that link provided by you)

In Jira Cloud, you can either hide the project or make it Read-only depends on your purpose. 

Refer Archiving a project documentation. 

This links to Jira Server document, but still "Online Archive" should apply for Jira Cloud as well.