Within Teamwork Desk, you can archive agents to remove their access to your site while maintaining an option to restore them in the future.

⚠️ Archiving an agent does not remove them from your subscription. To prevent future charges for archived agents, you must also update your subscription's user count.

Understanding archived agents

Once an agent is archived:
  • The agent cannot log in to your Teamwork Desk site.
  • The agent cannot access Help Docs sites that are authenticated for agents and administrators access only.
  • The agent's profile remains but is not editable.
    • The agent details panel on the left side of the agent profile references who archived the agent, when they were archived, and an option to restore the agent.
  • References to the agent's name remain in areas such as tickets, activity, ticket history, and reports.
  • Any tickets assigned to the agent remain assigned to them.
    • If a new customer response is received on a ticket in the future, the ticket is automatically unassigned and added to the inbox's New section.
    • To reassign an archived agent's existing tickets,   use the bulk edit function to reassign.
  • The agent is removed from any conditions or actions on existing triggers.
    • It is important to review the triggers highlighted in the confirmation modal before or after archiving an agent and update as necessary to ensure that workflows are not interrupted.
  • The agent is removed from any custom views they were previously associated with, therefore tickets returned based on the custom view's conditions may change.
     

Archiving and restoring agents

Agents can be archived or restored via the agent's profile.

Click Edit profile in the agent profile's top right, then scroll to the bottom of the agent details view and select Archive agent.

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To restore an already archived agent, click Restore Agent at the bottom of the agent details panel on the agent profile's left.


People area

When viewing the Agents area of your site, archived agents are hidden by default. 

  1. Click the filters button in the view's top right.
  2. Scroll to the Type filter.
  3. Check the Include Archived Agents.

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The agents list is updated to include archived agents. They are shown greyed out with an archived label, however they are still clickable to view their profile.


Reporting on archived agents

When viewing ticket and agent related sections of the Reports area, archived agents are hidden by default.

  1. Click the filters button in the view's top right.
  2. Scroll to the Agents filter.
  3. Check the Include Archived Agents box.

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The source information populating the reports is updated to include archived agents' data.


For more information, see: Bulk Edit Options