Some helpers prefer to have a log of all topics that they have handled in the past, be it stale or completed, on hand. After using the MHWT for a prolonged period of time, topics can quickly build up in the topics box and can end up slowing down the overall performance of the program.
The archive helps alleviate this problem by allowing you to move completed/stale topics to this section. Topics that have been moved from the topics box will appear in the archive (they can be moved back if needed). After being moved to the archive, they will no longer appear in the topic box.
Note that to prevent confusion, only topics that have been marked as stale or completed can be moved to the archive. Any other topics cannot be moved unless their status have been changed to the two mentioned. The archiving button on the topics box does support multi-select, and in the case where a topic has been selected among a group which is not stale or complete, the MHWT will move all allowable topics to the archive, and present a warning as such:
The archive behaves like a limited functionality of the topics window. It supports the opening of the topic link, and a filter search.
Topics in the archive can be moved back to the main topics window by clicking the Un-Archive button. Note that any topics that have been moved here will not lose their respective information. This includes (but is not limited to) issues, logs, speech history, etc.