How to archive projects in Jira, so they would disappear from Projects picker

Question

We have bunch of old projects in Jira Studio that we want to keep online (in case, if we need to return to them for whatever reason), but I don\'t want them to appear anywhere i

Answer 1

This information is governed by the database:

SELECT * from userhistoryitem where username = 'username' and entitytype = 'Project' order by lastviewed desc;

   id   | entitytype | entityid |    username    |  lastviewed   | data
--------+------------+----------+----------------+---------------+------
 227698 | Project    | 10220    |    username    | 1301405322572 |
 133838 | Project    | 10151    |    username    | 1301402682690 |
 168381 | Project    | 10227    |    username    | 1301344271235 |
  45043 | Project    | 10180    |    username    | 1301340216454 |
 208541 | Project    | 10140    |    username    | 1301330686000 |
 210826 | Project    | 10090    |    username    | 1301318618545 |
 161779 | Project    | 10091    |    username    | 1301318570239 |
 225332 | Project    | 10221    |    username    | 1301247960400 |
 102017 | Project    | 10100    |    username    | 1301084781755 |
 215912 | Project    | 10222    |    username    | 1301084768265 |
 223485 | Project    | 10130    |    username    | 1301079161189 |
 181173 | Project    | 10010    |    username    | 1301071156042 |
 216181 | Project    | 10240    |    username    | 1300903565503 |
 147978 | Project    | 10161    |    username    | 1300804150829 |
 216174 | Project    | 10243    |    username    | 1300724821587 |
 215914 | Project    | 10223    |    username    | 1300724728560 |
 212712 | Project    | 10210    |    username    | 1300480230937 |
  96497 | Project    | 10060    |    username    | 1300480223816 |
 209995 | Project    | 10092    |    username    | 1300295744684 |
(19 rows)

The top row (most recent lastviewed) is the first project on the list. I don't think you have DB access in JIRA Studio though.