Answers.Body: <p>This is so that you can temporarily or permanently remove a campaign from being selected. If you have say 30 campaigns and 20 of them are completed, you don't really want them cluttering up the drop down lists when you create events etc. You only want the active campaigns.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: That is exactly what I was assuming, but I didn't want to disable a campaign and inadvertently mess up our data.  Thanks for your answer!
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Body: <p>I feel like this answer will be super obvious, but I'm unable to find an answer in Civi's documents.  I feel like the campaign status sums up the state of the campaign so I'm just wondering what info the active / disabled fields capture. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks all! </p>
  
Tags: <database><civicampaign>
Title: What is the purpose of the active / disabled buttons for campaigns?
ThreadText: # What is the purpose of the active / disabled buttons for campaigns?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-08)
  
  I feel like this answer will be super obvious, but I'm unable to find an answer in Civi's documents. I feel like the campaign status sums up the state of the campaign so I'm just wondering what info the active / disabled fields capture.
  
  Thanks all!
  
  **Tags:** database, civicampaign
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-04-09. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  This is so that you can temporarily or permanently remove a campaign from being selected. If you have say 30 campaigns and 20 of them are completed, you don't really want them cluttering up the drop down lists when you create events etc. You only want the active campaigns.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: That is exactly what I was assuming, but I didn't want to disable a campaign and inadvertently mess up our data.  Thanks for your answer!  
  
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