Basic archive woes

I’m having real trouble with basic archive page (in fact PODS archives seem to be a big issue judging by a Google search!)

In this support post – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/using-archive-or-an-other-theme-template-to-display-pods/ – Jim True says…

If you want your custom fields you’ve added to show or anything else, you either have to modify the themes’ archive.php (or index.php), create an archive-<post-type>.php for your theme or create a Pods Template and ‘insert’ the missing fields using the Auto Templates capability.

OK, that’s three options:
1. Modify the theme archive.php page (sounds codey to me!)
2. Create a custom archive.php page in the theme files (again, sounds codey to me!)
3. Create a PODS template and use the auto-template capability, (hurrah, not so codey!)

So I choose option 3, create a PODS template and then use the auto-template capability. I write my template (some basic html + magic tags) and in the auto-templator select my template for archive use. ALSO…in my pod’s ‘Advanced Options’ tab, I have checked ‘Enable Archive Page’..which (quote) “creates an archive page with a list of items in this custom post type”.

I think I’ve followed the instructions pretty closely. All saved and updated.

But can I view an archive page anywhere? Not for love nor money! No archive page has been created in the WP admin pages section. And calling mysite.com/archive.php just gets a ‘not found’ message.

Where’s my archive? Having checked the ‘Enable Archive Page’ in advanced options, I’m expecting either…
1. a special archive page to have been created in the pages section of WP admin. Or…
2. a special archive.php page to have been inserted into my theme’s file structure (or maybe some extra coded injected into the default archive.php file)

Neither seems to have happened. Where is my archive? !!

cheers
HJ