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sourceDocument: Australia Sales and Order Management
sourceDocumentLink: https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/r/de-DE/order-management

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    - australia

ft:locale :

    - de-DE

ft:publication_title :

    - Australia Sales and Order Management

ft:clusterId :

    - omgmt

bundleId :

    - omgmt

workflow :

    - Customer and Industry


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# Retire or archive

# Retire or archive a template {#ariaid-title1}

* Freigeben Version: Australia
* 
* Aktualisiert 12. März 2026
* 
* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 Minute Lesedauer

Move a published slice template to a Retired or Archived state when the template is no longer in use. When you retire a template, you can't use it in a service specification.

## Vorbereitungen

Role required: sn_prd_pm.product_catalog_admin

## Warum und wann dieser Vorgang ausgeführt wird

After you retire or archive a template, you can't do the following actions:

* Update the template
* Use it to create other template entities such as template characteristics and template characteristics options
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## Prozedur

1. Open CSM Configurable Workspace.
2. Navigate to ListTemplatesAll.  
   A list of templates is displayed.
3. Open the template that you want to retire and select Retire.
4. Open the template and select Retire.  
   A dialog box appears with the following message: Are you sure you want to retire this template? Once you retire it, you can't make changes to it.

   If the template is being used in a published specification, the following message appears: Are you sure you want to retire this template? It's used in one or more published specification.  
   Do one of the following actions:
   * To skip the retirement of this template, select Cancel.
   * To retire this template, select Retire.
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5. Archive this template by selecting Archive.  
   A dialog box appears with the following message: Are you sure you want to archive this template?  
   Do one of the following actions:
   * To skip archiving this template, select No.
   * To archive this template, select Yes.

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   Hinweis:  
   You can only archive a retired template.