Managing Archives

Archives are like folders for your studies. Archives appear as upload destinations when saving studies on the Butterfly iQ app.

We recommend organizing archives in a way that most benefits your organization's needs. Our recommended model is to have Clinical Scans and Educational Scans stored in separate archives, or to separate your archives by provider, clinic, or specialty.

Note: There is a limit of 100 archives per organization. Therefore, we advise against a workflow that requires a unique archive for each patient.

Access Role Requirements

Only administrators can create, delete, and restore archives. If you are a member of a team, please contact your administrator for assistance. If you have an individual membership, you have administrative privileges by default.

To create a new archive:

    On the Butterfly Cloud

1. Log into Butterfly Cloud using your Butterfly credentials.
2. On the left side of the screen are all your archives. Click "Create an archive."
3. Enter an archive title and click "Create."

   On the Butterfly App

1. Log into the Butterfly App using your Butterfly credentials.
2. On the bottom left of the navigation bar, click the Folder icon to see your Studies. Click your primary or default archive.
3. Click "Create an archive."
4. Enter an archive title and click "Create."

To delete an archive:

1. Log into Butterfly Cloud using your Butterfly credentials.
2. On the left side of the screen, select the archive you wish to delete. 
3. In the top right corner of the archive window, select "Archive Settings."
4. Select "Delete Archive." The system prompts you to confirm the deletion.
5. Click "Delete" to delete the archive.

To restore a deleted archive:

Note: Restoring an archive also restores all studies that were deleted with the archive.

1. Log into Butterfly Cloud using your Butterfly credentials.
2. Click the "Deleted Archives" drop-down menu located at the bottom of the list of archives on the left side of the screen.
3. The drop-down menu reveals a list of deleted archives. Click the deleted archive you want to restore.
4. Select "Restore" . The system prompts you to confirm the restoration of the deleted archive. Once confirmed, the archive is restored.

To restrict access to an archive:

1. Log into Butterfly Cloud using your Butterfly credentials.
2. On the left side of the screen, select the archive you wish to restrict. 
3. Beside the archive name in the archive window, you’ll see a gear symbol: . Click this to access "Archive Settings."
4. Click "Private archive" to make the archive private.
5. Click "Edit access" to modify the list of people who have access to the archive. All administrators have access to all archives. You can add and remove members to the list of people who have access.

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