# Off the board: Set aside and Archive A plan you don’t want to see on the board doesn’t have to go: you move a realized one to the archive and set aside one nobody has started yet. - **4 minutes** (reading time) - **Before you start**: a featureloom account, plans on your board Download the recording: [Off the board: Set aside and Archive (MP4)](https://featureloom.com/_astro/film-en.BXjiAnnI.mp4). All the steps in one recording, narrated. ## 1. Archive a realized plan Only a realized plan goes to the archive. Point at its card in the column with the realized state and press Archive. On a touch screen the button shows right away. ![The cards of the realized plans INV-12 and INV-13, with the Archive button on the card of INV-13](https://featureloom.com/_astro/step-1-en.1Ij3jjuE_Z2duBqi.webp) Archive on a card The plan leaves the board but keeps its document, its history and its dependencies. ## 2. Let featureloom archive on its own featureloom can also move realized plans to the archive by itself. On the Project settings screen, in the Project details tab, Archive after (days) sets after how many days a realized plan goes there on its own. The default is 14 days. Saving moves the plans already past the new window at once. ![The Project details tab with the Archive after (days) field](https://featureloom.com/_astro/step-2-en.Cje4ZWTd_Z2rV9X2.webp) Archive after (days) Type 0 and featureloom stops archiving on its own. Plans then reach the archive only by hand. ## 3. Set aside a plan you are not taking now You can set aside only a plan in the backlog. Point at its card and press Set aside. Under the card featureloom explains that the plan goes to Set aside, keeps its state and nothing is deleted. Confirm with Set aside. ![The card of INV-16 with its confirmation open: the sentence that the plan leaves the board for Set aside and changes no state, and under it the Set aside and Keep it buttons](https://featureloom.com/_astro/step-3-en.Cmt9U4qj_Z2bBMEG.webp) Setting a plan aside No console takes a set-aside plan until somebody restores it. Plans that wait on it keep waiting. > Anyone in the organization can set plans aside and restore them. A set-aside plan shows who set it aside and when. ## 4. Find the plan on the Off the board screen Open Off the board in the menu. The screen shows the plans of the project chosen in the menu, in two parts: Set aside and Archive. In the archive you find a plan with Find in the archive. The Realized filter shows the plans realized in the time you pick: choose a ready range, such as Last 30 days or Previous month, or give two dates. Dates count in your time zone, the last day included. ![The Off the board screen with its Set aside and Archive parts, Archive open: the Find in the archive field, the Realized filter and the plan INV-1 with its Restore button](https://featureloom.com/_astro/step-4-en.BOPM9o13_2iwcA0.webp) The archive A set-aside plan opens like any other, and you can still edit its document. ## 5. Bring the plan back to the board Every plan on both lists has a Restore button. A plan from the archive goes back to the column with the realized state. If the project archives on its own, the days to the archive start again. ![The Set aside part of the Off the board screen: the set-aside plan INV-17 with its Restore button](https://featureloom.com/_astro/step-5-en.BBxsg0MW_12DwvI.webp) Restore A set-aside plan goes back to the end of the column it was in, as long as the plans in that column are still in the backlog state. If not, it goes to the end of the column with the backlog state. The Restore button is on a set-aside plan’s own screen too. ## Good to know - A console with the Writes plans right can also set aside and archive plans, and bring them back. - On an epic’s screen you can set the epic aside or archive it. On the Off the board screen you then see it above the plans, with how many plans left the board with it. - You can’t set aside a plan in realization. Move it back to the backlog first. - The archive isn’t a column of the board, so you can’t drag a card into it. Updated: November 5, 2026 ## Next: Tutorials All featureloom tutorials are in one place. [See the tutorials](https://featureloom.com/en/tutorials/)