Managing archiving and unarchiving operations at a content collaboration system

A method for administering archiving of content items associated with a content collaboration system, the method comprising:

• displaying a hierarchical document tree in a user interface instance associated with an administrative account, the hierarchical document tree comprising graphical objects corresponding to content items associated with multiple user accounts;
• receiving, from a client device associated with the administrative account, a selection of a graphical object corresponding to a content item associated with a second user account;
• in response to receiving the selection of the graphical object:
• assigning an archived status to the content item;
• generating an updated hierarchical relationship of the content items, the updated hierarchical relationship based on a hierarchical relationship of the content items associated with the multiple user accounts and indicating the archived status of the content item;
• constructing a hierarchical document tree instance for displaying the graphical objects for the administrative account, the hierarchical document tree instance based on the updated hierarchical relationship of the content items and comprising a graphical object that indicates the archived status of the content item;
• and
• in response to the client device requesting display of the hierarchical document tree, displaying in the user interface instance the hierarchical document tree instance.

A method for managing archiving actions at a content collaboration system, the method comprising:

• displaying a hierarchical document tree in a navigation pane of a user interface for the content collaboration system, the hierarchical document tree comprising graphical objects corresponding to content items hosted by the content collaboration system;
• determining that one or more of the content items satisfy a first criteria;
• in response to determining that the one or more content items that satisfy the first criteria:
• archiving the one or more content items;
• constructing a second hierarchical document tree having graphical objects associated with the one or more content items suppressed;
• and
• constructing an archived hierarchical document tree comprising graphical objects corresponding to the one or more content items selected for archiving, the archived hierarchical document tree arranged according to a hierarchical relationship of the one or more content items;
• determining that an archived content items satisfies a second criteria;
• in response to determining that the archived content items that satisfies the second criteria:
• receiving a selection of a parent node for the archived content item;
• restoring the archived content item;
• and
• constructing a third hierarchical document tree comprising the restored archived content item arranged according to the selection of the parent node.