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title: "Viewing Archived Data"
description: "After a Salesforce object is added to Veeam Data Cloud Salesforce Extension and a Salesforce Administrator configures the necessary layouts for this object, the Administrator must also create the Archived Records button or the Archived Records tab..."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vdc_salesforce_extension/userguide/viewing_archived_data.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Viewing Archived Data"
dateModified: "2026-10-26"
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# Viewing Archived Data

After a Salesforce object is added to Veeam Data Cloud Salesforce Extension and a Salesforce Administrator configures the necessary layouts for this object, the Administrator must also create the **Archived Records** button or the **Archived Records** tab (or both) — otherwise, users will not be able to view archived data of the added object. To learn how to create custom tabs and buttons, see [Configuring Veeam Data Cloud Salesforce Extension](adding_tabs_and_buttons.md).

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For a user to be able to access archived data, they must be assigned the *VBSF Archive Viewer User* permission set in Salesforce as described in section [Assigning Permissions](assigning_permissions.md).

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You can view archived data in either of the following ways:

- To view all archived records of an object, navigate to the object list view and click **Archived Records**. The **Archived Records** page will open. 

  For an object to be displayed in the list of available objects, it must be added to the **Page Layouts** page as described in section [Adding Objects](adding_objects.md).

  [![Viewing Archived Data](images/view_button.png "Viewing Archived Data")](images/view_button.png){.toggle scale=60}

- To view archived child records of an object, navigate to the object list view, click the name of the parent record that contains the necessary child records, and switch to the **Archived Records** tab. 

  For a child record to be displayed in the list of available archived records, the object that contains this record must be added to the **Page Layouts** page as described in section [Adding Objects](adding_objects.md), and the *Related List View* layout must be created and linked to the parent record as described in section [Configuring Layouts](configuring_layouts.md).

  [![Viewing Archived Data](images/view_tab.png "Viewing Archived Data")](images/view_tab.png){.toggle scale=60}

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- If you want to view details on a specific record, click the link in the first column. The **Record Preview** window will open. 
- By default, Veeam Data Cloud Salesforce Extension displays only 5 child records per object. To view all archived child records of the selected object, click **View All**. 
- To apply specific search conditions and reduce the number of search results, you can click the **Filters** icon and filter records by date range. By default, filters are combined by the *AND* logical operator. That is, a record is displayed in the search results only if all the specified conditions are met. 

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