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dmescia2
dmescia2
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April 30, 2025
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Question on handling of archived assets

  • April 30, 2025
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I'm working on planning for our long term archive and its brought up a functionality question in AEM. I would like to accomplish the following use case but am not sure if AEM is capable. I would like to set up a property called Archive with a yes checkbox. When the box is not checked the asset is stored in active storage on the backend. When the status box is checked the asset is moved to glacier storage in the backend. So the asset stays in the same location in the DAM interface but the storage of it on the backend is dependent on the metadata in one of the properties.Does anyone know if this capability exists in AEM or if its on the roadmap?

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ShubhanshuSi2Community Advisor
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May 2, 2025

This is surely innovative and interesting, How do you plan to restore the assets? (If this is a requirement) ? Are you on AMS, On Prem or AEM CS? 

To get the correct/precise visibility on roadmap, you might want to open a customer support ticket

    dmescia2
    dmescia2Author
    Level 3
    May 2, 2025

    We are AES CS. I would like to restore them the same way I would download. Except for archived stuff there would be a message or popup or something that states it may take a day or 2 to download since its archived.

    narendragandhi
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    narendragandhiCommunity Advisor
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    May 9, 2025

    Interesting use case @dmescia2 . In one of my archival implementations we had to do custom implementation where we moved the archived assets to a separate area within DAM. This helps to ensure that it does not show up for content authors. If you are looking for an inplace archival you may also need some visual indicator and some way to filter those assets out for authors.

     

    Thanks

    Narendra

      kautuk_sahni
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      kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      June 26, 2025

      @dmescia2 Just checking in — were you able to resolve your issue?
      We’d love to hear how things worked out. If the suggestions above helped, marking a response as correct can guide others with similar questions. And if you found another solution, feel free to share it — your insights could really benefit the community. Thanks again for being part of the conversation!

      Kautuk Sahni
      dmescia2
      dmescia2Author
      Level 3
      June 26, 2025

      I was very slow to open a ticket with support but one is currently open to see if this is something that might be able to be accomplished. I'll keep you posted.

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