Content archiving is useful in a number of situations:

• When you make updates to the content of a page, you may want to track the changes you made rather than completely overwrite the old content with your new updates. When this is the case, instead of simply opening the Active Document in the Content tab and making your changes, you can make a new version of the page and archive the current version that you are updating.
• Sometimes you want to keep a page in the CMS even though its use on the website has expired. You may need to refer to it later so deleting it from the system is not an option. In this case you can simply archive the current version of the page without creating a new live page.

It is possible to create a situation where all versions of a page are archived and thus there is no "live" version. When this happens, site visitors that try to access this page will just get a "content unavailable" message.

If there is no live version of a page then it won't appear on the site menu or site map.

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