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What is a scheme?

The Better Content Archiving app is extremely flexible, which is achieved through configurability. Configurability is implemented through reusable schemes.

Each scheme has:

  1. a name
  2. a description
  3. a list of items (depending on the type of the scheme)

The following scheme types are available:

Scheme type Contains What it does?
Content status scheme statuses It defines what status should be assigned to a content.
Notification scheme notifications It defines when to send a notification, to whom, and with what content.
Automation scheme automations It defines when to archive, delete, or purge content, and which content qualifies.

All scheme types can be managed in a similar way, though they have their own specific settings as well.

Work with schemes

Working with schemes essentially means two things:

  1. You configure schemes to define your statuses, notifications and automations.
  2. You apply schemes to spaces so each space uses the corresponding statuses, notifications and automations. Schemes are meant to be shared: two or more spaces can use the very same scheme, that's exactly the idea.

Scopes

Schemes can be configured in two scopes: the whole site, or a single space.

Work with schemes for the site

You can actually configure the schemes and conveniently mass-apply them to spaces in this scope.

You can access the corresponding configuration screens under Confluence Settings (cog icon "⚙" in the top right) → Apps → Better Content Archiving → Configuration box links. It requires Confluence administrator permission.

Work with schemes for a space

You cannot configure the scheme itself in this scope. You can see the scheme's details currently applied to this space, and apply a new scheme to this space if you want to.

You can access the corresponding configuration screens by opening the space, clicking Space Settings → Integrations → Better Content Archiving → "... scheme" tabs. It requires Space administrator permission.

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