Design: Boards in Archive

/archive is a page, with the same second top header bar as every other page.

It was a modal — Modal.open('archivedBoards'), from three different menus — so the one place that lists every archived board, with its own search and its own pager, was a box floating over whatever you happened to be looking at. It had no address, so it could not be linked to a colleague or bookmarked or opened in a second tab; there was nothing to come back to; and Escape closed it while you were reading. "Restore the board I archived last month" is a task, not a glance.

Where it is reached from

From	Control
The board menu	js-open-archived-board in boardHeader.js
The member menu	the same class, in userHeader.js
The board sidebar	the same class, in sidebar.js
The All Boards sidebar	the same class, in its home view

All four go to /allboards/archive — the Archive section of All Boards, the row in its left menu — built with allBoardsPath(SECTION_ARCHIVE, []) rather than by spelling the path out in four places that can drift apart.

They used to go to /archive, the full-width page. That page is what the section replaced: the same list of boards, but with no left menu beside it, so there was no way across to Starred or Remaining without going back first, and the one row in the menu that says "Archive" was not the row you had arrived at. A menu entry should land you on the same Archive the menu itself offers.

/archive is still a route and still renders — a bookmark from before does not break — but nothing in the UI points at it any more.

The All Boards one had no handler at all. It was drawn, and clicking it did nothing: the handler it relied on lived in the header bar's events map, and went when that map was rewritten for the sidebar. A Blaze event map only sees events inside its own template, and the button had moved out of it.

What the page is

archivedBoards, in client/components/boards/boardArchive.jade — the same template the modal used, minus its own h2. A modal has no header bar to be named in, so it drew its own title; on a page that is the title printed twice. archivedBoardsHeaderBar names it once, where every other page is named.

It keeps what made it worth having:

• Search, over every archived board, not just the page you can see.
• Server-side paging — the subscription publishes one page at a time (archivedBoards, with a search term, a limit and a skip), so an instance with a long archive stays fast. The page size is the app's one TABLE_PAGE_ROWS_PER_PAGE.
• Restore remains available without putting a destructive control on every board icon. There is no per-board trashcan, archive glyph or delete-looking hover control at the lower-left of an archived tile; its archived date remains plain text inside the tile.
• Permanent delete is a multi-selection action in the right sidebar. It is visible only to a Global Admin while Admin Panel → Problems → Delete is enabled, is drawn as a red Delete button, and confirms that the selected boards and their contents cannot be recovered. The server independently checks the administrator, setting, archived state and complete selection before removing anything. It validates the DDP argument before its first asynchronous lookup, as required by Meteor's argument auditor; malformed attempts are still recorded in Recovery after the actor lookup.
• Like Remaining, Starred and Templates, while Multi-Selection is active the Archive shows Select All and Select None in the right page above its board icons. They check or uncheck exactly the icons currently shown by the section and its search filter. Home has the same controls; Select All checks its one visible Home board when there is one.
• Dragging an archived multi-selection highlights only valid destinations in green: Remaining and every existing Workspace. Home is neither highlighted nor accepted, because an archived board cannot be the board opened after login. A Workspace drop restores each board and assigns it to that Workspace.

Restoring navigates to the restored board. A successful permanent delete clears the selection; a refused one leaves it selected so the administrator can correct the setting or selection and retry.

Related files

File Path	File Type	Description
config/router.js	.js routes	The /archive route.
client/components/boards/boardArchive.jade	.jade template	archivedBoardsHeaderBar and archivedBoards.
client/components/boards/boardArchive.js	.js Blaze template logic	The search, the pager, restore and delete.
tests/archivePage.test.cjs	.cjs Node test	That it is a page, that nothing opens it as a modal, that all four entry points reach it, and that the search and paging survived the move.

Related

• All Boards — one of the four places it is reached from
• The Table page design — the rows-per-page it shares