Cleaning up old iviews/pages/worksets

Hello,
We have a lot of old iviews/pages/worksets that we continue to leave in our existing portal content folder structure. It makes it very difficult to find the current active iviews and know for sure you are working with the correct item. What is the best practice for "archiving" this old portal content? I could just re-organize the folders in portal content so that the active items are together and the old items are in an archived folder area. But should I do something to clean out this old stuff from our test and production systems? Is it taking up space on our test and production system such that we should do something to have it removed?
Thank you for your recommendations.
Wendy Miller

Hi Wendy
I would not won't to answer your question with a definate answer but what you need is proper management of your portal content.
to simplify
1. Identify the iviews you are using and the iviews not of use.
2. check if you have crated your own copy of the iview or its being used as delievered.
3. once the list is ready start deleting the unused copied iviews.
4. Its not a good idea to delete standard iviews however it doesn't mean that you can't.
You need to sit with business and identify what you are currently using.
Have company specific content repository and never use standard iviews without copying.
good luck.
- barin

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