is it possible to manage the authorizations of archived projects?

[Mélanie Liguet]

Hi, 

I archived a project in jira cloud.
but, now, I need to search issues in this project by API. I use https://xxx/rest/api/3/search?jql=id=xxx

it doesn't get me anything.
Is it possible to give just access to 1 user to use the APIs on a archived project?

Best regards, 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Mélanie Liguet 

Welcome to the community.

The answer is No. As per the documentation

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/archive-a-project-1013843066.html

"When a project is archived, its issues won’t appear in basic or advanced search results. "

For Company Managed projects the work around we have used is instead of using the Archive function we created a permission scheme that limits the Browse Project permission to Jira Administrators. That hides the project issues from other users (though it does appear in Project lists) while still allowing Jira Administrators to view and search the project issues. You would need to make note somewhere what the project's Permission Scheme was originally, in case you needed to "restore" it.