Archive old projects

Developers & API
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I have gotten the task to cleanup our clockify account.
somehow we have managed to accumulate 900+ projects.

but no one from ops have been good at archiving old projects.

But now it’s gotten out of hand, so I need to go in and archive the projects that are old.

I would like to see when the last where updated and say anything that hasn’t been updated this year can get archived.

But when I look at the api, there is no dates on the project and there is no way to get time entries for a specific project.

So how should I solve my problem?

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Hi Leon,

Per the current system design sorting by creation date is not possible I’m afraid.
What you can consider is Grouping by Date/Month and Project in the Summary report while setting a larger date range (one or two years). so you can have a visual on the latest projects and even export that report to CSV for a custom script to read and cross-reference with the response from Get All Projects endpoint.

This will also be forwarded as a feature suggestion to the team in charge of API documentation so they can consider use cases like yours in further advancement of the endpoint list.

Cheers!

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Was able to solve it, but it was not easy.

As a developer I would like to be able to export the ids of the projects, otherwise there is not safe way to update the projects.

Now I blindly had to find a project based on the name, and how that I was archiving the correct project.

Please add dates to the api :slight_smile: