In System Rule Maintenance, you define how many days the closed records must remain in the work in process (WIP) database before the system archives them (see Miscellaneous Rules).

In System Rule Maintenance, in the Archive Component when Parent Archived system rule under the Miscellaneous group, you determine if components should be archived only when the parent assembly is archived, instead of when the component is done.

In System Rule Maintenance, in the Expand Archive Handles system rule under the Miscellaneous group, you define if the Handle columns in the Archive table have to be expanded for reporting. Since this setting affects performance, the system rule value is false by default.

In System Setup Maintenance, you verify the value of the archive.children.update.batch.size setting (see System Setup Maintenance).

In the Background Processing Execution activity, you define how often and when the archive program should run (see Background Process Execution).

You execute automatic batch archiving either in the command line or using the defined settings in the Background Processing activity (see Executing Automatic Archiving).