Export or delete archived activities through API

Video guide to exporting archived activities with Data Loader:

Option 1

In order to obtain the archived record Ids through a report, you must request Increasing Archive Days for your Organization.

Note: Before the case, request is opened determine how far back you would like your Archive Date to go and take into account that if you don't go far enough back you're report may not return all archived activities. Support will tell you the limits and implications on how far your date can be moved to in the corresponding case.

After the feature is enabled, you can create reports containing archived activity Ids dating back to the number of days the feature was requested.

To create the report:

1. Click on the Reports tab.
2. Then click on create new custom report.
3. The report is of Activities. Depending on the activities, do Tasks or Events.

  
Option 2

In order to obtain the activity Ids through Data Loader, you will need to perform an Export All selecting to include the Id field. Please remember that with the Data Loader tasks and events are separate objects so you will need to follow the below steps for both tasks and events individually.

You can easily Export Data including archived activities with the Data Loader by following these steps: