Delete and archive issues
Archive work, recover deleted Issues, and understand permanent deletion.
Issue Workflows
Engineering
Team automation
Auto-archive closed Issues
Completed and canceled Team Issues can move to the archive automatically after the selected window. Parents with active descendants are skipped. Changes apply within a day.
Overview
Finished Issues archive automatically. Delete an Issue to start its 30-day recovery window. See Archive and delete for the shared workflow, settings and restore rules. There is no manual Issue Archive action.
Archived and deleted Issues are read-only until returned to active work. Direct-share-only recipients cannot open them while inactive.
Delete issues
Open an active Issue's actions and choose Delete, or use its row menu. The Issue leaves active lists immediately and an Undo toast stays available for 5 seconds. Choose Undo or press Ctrl + Z (⌘ + Z on a Mac) to put it back. Text fields and editors keep their own text undo.
The save waits for that window, so an undone delete leaves no Activity or notification. Closing the toast, hiding or closing the tab, or acting on the same Issue saves sooner. Navigating within Integrity leaves Undo available. A refused save returns the Issue and shows an error.
Use Actions → Delete for a compatible selection. Bulk deletion still asks for confirmation and then offers the same Undo window. Deletion includes eligible descendants. Archived Issues keep their existing confirmation and save immediately.
Recoverably deleted Issues have a 30-day retention window. Permanent deletion cannot be undone. Team owners and workspace administrators with the required permission can permanently delete from Deleted Issues.
Keyboard shortcuts
With an Issue row focused, or from Issue detail outside an editor or control:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/⌘ + Backspace | Delete an active Issue with Undo; open the existing confirmation for an archived Issue. |
| Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Backspace | Restore a deleted Issue, using the existing parent-choice dialog when required. |
| Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + X | Open the active Issue's Team archive when you have archive access. |
The focused row takes precedence over a parent detail page. Lifecycle permissions and pending-operation guards apply, and these keys do not target separately checked Issues. There is no permanent-delete shortcut. Archive and Deleted Issues tables support Ctrl/⌘ + A for rows you can manage.
Auto-close (coming soon)
Closing stale Issues after an inactivity period is not available. Integrity's existing Parent auto-close instead completes eligible parents when their active direct children are completed or canceled.
Auto-archive
Auto-archive is on by default after 30 untouched days. A Team settings manager can change it under Team settings → Workflows & automations → Team auto-archive, choose completed and/or canceled Issues, select a delay, or turn it off. The daily worker archives eligible work after that delay. Restoring an Issue starts a new delay.
Issue Workflows
Engineering
Team automation
Auto-archive closed Issues
Completed and canceled Team Issues can move to the archive automatically after the selected window. Parents with active descendants are skipped. Changes apply within a day.
Issues are not archiving
Check that auto-archive is enabled, the Issue has an eligible status, and the configured window has elapsed. Parents with active descendants are skipped.
Projects are not archiving
Issue auto-archive does not archive Projects. Projects have their own auto-archive setting for the whole workspace, and a Project is archived only after every Issue linked to it is archived. See Archived Projects.
The archives
Open the Team Issues top-bar … menu and choose Archived Issues. Its address ends in /teams/{team}/issues/archived. Deleted Issues stay in the separate Deleted Issues and Projects entry in the Team menu. You need Team-member access to these lists; public visibility alone is not enough.
Restore issues
- Open an archived Issue and choose Restore in its banner. It stays read-only, without comments, until restored. The archive table also offers Unarchive for permitted rows.
- Select deleted work and choose Restore. Work deleted from the archive returns to the archive.
- For a deleted hierarchy, restore follows the recorded cascade; independently deleted children are not revived.
- Restore without parent detaches the selected Issue and restores only descendants recorded in the same deletion operation. If the older record has no deletion-operation history, only the selected Issue is restored.
- Existing direct shares resume access only when the Issue returns to active work and the share is still valid.
Confirm the selected action. A bulk operation requires every selected Issue to allow it.
What stays when an Issue is deleted
Deleted Issues leave operational lists and counts. A structured mention in an independent comment or document can still identify the deleted Issue for a reader who has current access. The mention does not make the Issue editable or grant access to someone who has lost it.
For example, deleting a parent and its archived child together lets restoration return the parent to active work and the child to the archive. A different child deleted in an earlier operation stays deleted.
Issue-dependent Inbox attention is resolved without marking notifications read. Restoring the Issue does not reopen old attention or send reminders missed while it was deleted. Future eligible reminders can still run.
Permanent deletion
Permanent deletion applies to the selected Issue. It removes its owned narrative, comments, document content and attachment metadata. Authorized historical references retain a minimal Deleted issue identity and stable Issue key. Independent linked Projects, Meeting Minutes and other Issues remain intact, as does text authored in independent documents.
File removal is tracked separately and may finish later. An incomplete upload or a Storage failure can leave cleanup pending; it does not restore access to the permanently deleted Issue. Copies already downloaded or delivered outside Integrity cannot be recalled.