Lydia,

See the very last section, Identifier Encoding, at the bottom of this page:  
https://guides.library.yale.edu/archivesspace/ASpaceContainerManagement  This 
is documentation from the original top container plugin, but the same holds 
true now in the core code.

Things will look much looker cleaner in the staff interface after that, as seen 
in the attached image, which shows the first 11 boxes in that collection.

I hope that helps,

Mark

p.s. I'd say that the tooltips should be updated in the core code, as well. 



-----Original Message-----
From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org 
[mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of 
Tang, Lydia
Sent: Saturday, 27 January, 2018 11:29 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] data clean up of Top Container "titles"

Good morning, all!

I am trying to clean up some of our data goofiness.  As you can see in the 
attached screen shot, I have a “Box 56: Series Series 1; Series Series 2.”  
Opening the Top Container itself in edit mode only allows me to potentially 
change the container type (box) and number, but I can’t figure out how to kill 
off these series listings!  After digging around, I realized that the earlier 
processor that put Series 1 and Series 2 labels in the Component Unique 
Identifier (CUI) field for their respective series, which aligns with the tool 
tip suggestions, but is part of this problem.  It seems like the program 
automatically adds the extra “series” label, even if the tooltip seems to 
suggest flexibility about whether it indicates a series, subseries, or 
accession.  It also seems like this label is inherited to nested Top Containers 
under this series, so even if the actual records that are linked to this Top 
Container may have blank CUIs, but it actually inherits this information from 
wherever it’s nested.  Weirdly, for some of the most recent data entry, the Top 
Container has “Series Series 1” AND “Series Series 2” even though the record is 
only nested under the existing Series 2.  To remove these labels, I have to 
remove the CUI for each series.  At any rate, this is strange and obviously 
doesn’t seem to be working as intended.  My sample finding aid is in 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__test.archivesspace.org_&d=DwIGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=7Ez68qVcrmRD6nn1FqwoHBDEOxeRUCPm3xGvnFT0zjU&m=UCFvXxOgNsnpX1yK3bZYd3xVgh9CVlx6s0llS8v23Uk&s=-2dad9vFRw6d0YNK_VQSTnW1oQMAxi2nZFQagvlApK4&e=
 Gerber papers, if anyone wants to check.  I confirmed this behavior still 
persists in the latest release candidate, at least for my collection.  Anyone 
else notice this issue?

Thanks!

Lydia



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