Is there a way to auto archive a topic?

[Avraham (Avraham Byers)]

I saw this post, but my question is a bit different in nature.

Is there a way to:

1. Automatically archive or delete a topic after a certain amount of time – in a specific category (not across the whole platform?)

2. Give the option to someone who creates a topic to choose how long they want the post to live in discourse before it is archived or deleted?

Thank you!

P.S. How does the search work here in discourse? In other words, how does the search choose what comes up first?

[ondrej]

Hello,
for question 1 you can give support here:

Topic Timer Archive option

Continuing the discussion from Unlist option in Topic Timer: Yes, exactly, why not archive? I’d like to propose an archive option in the Topic Timer. Use case: Make a competition where people can vote and close voting period automatically (archiving prevents voting). Actually I’d need this option right now and expected it in the drop down. I’m surprised that it is not included in the options.

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However, for now you are just going to have to archive the topic manually with admin wrench.

@Avraham

Give the option to someone who creates a topic to choose how long they want the post to live in discourse before it is archived or deleted?

This can be a new feature request and in itself. There are multiple examples of these things

Allow regular user to archive (or close) their own topic?

Is there an easy way to allow regular users to be able to archive a topic they started? I don’t think this feature would be abused for what I’m considering using discourse for. For example for a buy and sell category, where the item is sold, or maybe a category discussing events, where the event is over, it would be good if the original poster could archive the topic themselves. A point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks!

Furthermore, not sure how much support the team will have.

All the best

[albert_vu (Albert Vũ)]

我认为 Discourse 还可以考虑的一项功能是将主题移至特定类别时自动将其存档。

因此，对于我们的网站，我们创建了一个名为“存档”的公共类别，我们正致力于将旧主题移入其中并将其存档。我们还设置了安全设置，以便只有管理员和版主可以在该类别中创建主题/回复主题。

我们相信，这样做可以大大整理我们的论坛，同时允许成员在需要时轻松访问旧主题/帖子。

尽管如此，目前存档主题的过程仍然相当繁琐：

• 步骤 1：从每个类别的帖子列表或高级搜索中搜索/筛选旧的、不活跃的主题。
• 步骤 2：选择所有主题并移至该类别。
• 步骤 3：再次选择所有主题以将其存档。