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Archived articles appear in explore but not Guide admin for an agent

  • March 22, 2023
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Mary12

We noticed that when a number of agents try to find archived articles in Zendesk Guide admin, they cannot access the archive.  We recently created a dashboard with one of the tabs being a report to allow us to search thru the archive.  These same agents can get the results of the search and see the archived articles.

1) Why was this implemented so differently in Guide Admin vs Explore?

2) Isn't that considered a permissions issue as we were told only Guide Admins can see the archive?

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Julio18
  • April 21, 2023
Hi Mary,

Thanks for your feedback. 
 
This is correct, as per the following documentation. The role must be Guide = Admin:

Viewing and restoring archived articles 

The results from Explore are expected, as both products are not related in relation to the role. In explore you can consult the data, however, they will not be able to restore it. Only an authorized Guide Admin can action archive tickets. 

Greetings. 

Mary12
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  • January 22, 2026

Can we access the entire list of articles in the archive using the API?  What field shows an article has been archived?