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C_Blakeley
C_Blakeley
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August 14, 2026
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Ability to Filter for Assets in Archived Folders Only in Design Studio

  • August 14, 2026
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While it is currently possible to select multiple assets within the UI, the available filters do not provide an option to view assets located exclusively in archived folders. At present, users can only choose to include archived folders in their search results, which means archived and active assets are returned together.

It would be valuable to have the ability to filter for archived folders only.

Use Case

During instance clean-up and governance activities, teams often need to review assets that have already been archived. Being able to isolate assets within archived folders would make it easier to distinguish them from live, in-use assets, reducing the risk of accidentally unapproving, modifying, or deleting active assets. This functionality would improve efficiency, support better instance management, and help ensure that clean-up efforts are focused only on retired content.

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    PeeyushSachdeva
    PeeyushSachdeva
    Level 4
    August 14, 2026

    Hi ​@C_Blakeley ,

     

    Right now Marketo's asset search (and the multi-select picker) doesn't have a dedicated "archived only" filter. The "include archived" option just merges archived items back in with your active ones, so you end up scrolling through both together instead of being able to isolate the retired content. Not ideal when you're doing clean-up and really don't want to risk touching something that's still live.

    A couple of things that may help you work around this in the meantime:

    1. In Advanced Search, select all the asset types you want to review, then uncheck "Active Trigger" from the list. That drops active/trigger campaigns out of the results, which narrows things down quite a bit and makes it easier to spot what's actually sitting in archived folders instead of wading through everything that's still live.
    2. Longer term, it's worth setting up one global Archive folder and making it a habit going forward - any time a program or asset gets retired, move it into that folder right away instead of leaving it scattered around its original location. Once that becomes routine, future clean-up passes get a lot faster because you already know exactly where to look, instead of hunting for archived content across the whole instance.

    Neither of these gets you the exact filter you're describing, but they've made governance and clean-up noticeably more manageable for us in the meantime.

     

    Thanks.

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