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October 29, 2021
Discovery

Allow for groups to be archived/unarchived

Related products:CC Groups
  • October 29, 2021
  • 14 replies
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We utilize groups for a lot of things and I’d love to have a way to be able to archive/unarchive a group once a group is no longer needed while still retaining the valuable content in that group should it want to be referenced or resurrected later. You can think of this being similar to how a channel can be archived in Slack.

This would do a couple things:

  • it would remove the group from the overall groups list in Destination
  • it would move the group from the main list in Control to some sort of archive list or grouping or indicate the group as archived vs. active
  • it would retain the topics in that group should someone want to reference and also could automatically remove the members that were part of the group and notify them that it has been archived.

Some examples for us:

  • we use groups for betas. At the end of the beta, we’d like to be able to archive the group so it no longer appears in our list of groups while still retaining the topics created in that group for reference by our product team should it be needed. Today we have to instead move a bunch of topics to a hidden category, then delete the group and this is all manual work.
  • we may create a group, then find out that it’s not delivering the expected value (e.g. a group for a city/region). It may be helpful to get it off the site, remove and notify the members, and retain the content should the group want to be resurrected again in the future

I’d see this applying to any group type - public, private, or hidden.

14 replies

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 3, 2021
Updated idea statusNewOpen
anirbandutta
Expert ⭐️
September 9, 2022

v Needed usecase. Upvoted!

It's an opportunity for engagement
genells
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 12, 2024

Super excited to see this is in an Open status. Looking forward to see if the team can develop this.🤞🏽 I have a similar use case for our beta community groups.

svh
Helper ⭐️⭐️
November 8, 2024

Upvoted! We’ve just launched beat-groups and when the beta has come to an end, it would be great to be able to archive the groups for the users while still being able to see feedback, who joined the group, etc, from the backend.

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 25, 2025

Upvoted! This would be helpful for groups we have in our community too, rather than just outright deleting the group. 

erin.brisson
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 8, 2026

It looks like I missed this when submitting my recent idea about archiving groups so feel free to merge mine with this one. 
Also, is there any chance for an update on whether this is being considered or not any time soon?

Erin
olepord
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
May 6, 2026

New to Gainsight CC. Great recent upgrade of the group functionality but we still need better tools to manage a large number of groups.  

Olivier
Product Manager
June 8, 2026
Updated idea statusOpenDiscovery
Product Manager
June 8, 2026

Thanks, This is something we will work on later currently in discovery stage

erin.brisson
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 10, 2026

Hello ​@deepan, do you have any workarounds for archiving groups presently? I don’t want to delete the group and lose all posts in the group but I’d like the group to no longer exist to to group members. Ideally, it would be removed from their groups list.

Right now, the only way I can think to accomplish this is to tag all posts in the group with the Group Name and then transfer all the group posts to our hidden archive and then delete the group.

Anyone else have any other suggestions?

Erin