Hi Jeri,

That's great if you want "all" the records changed.  But I want only a
selection from the Objects module.  Unless I'm missing something. . .

-----Original Message-----
From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jeri Moxley
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:03 AM
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Subject: Re: Copying Attributes from one media record to another

Hi Christine,

Did you know that in cases where you want to update *all* instances of
links to a thesaurus term, you can do that in Configuration through a
batch update to thesaurus links? i.e., if you want *all* links to
Costume to be changed to Clothing...

It's under Configuration: Edit menu > Search and Replace > Linked
Thesaurus Terms


Best,
Jeri
 

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Christine Droll
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: Copying Attributes from one media record to another

My beef with Attributes is not being able to do a batch update on
several hundred records at a time.  If I want to change Costume to
Clothing, I have to do so with each record.  How lovely it would be to
place them all in an Object Package and change them in one go.

Of course, this would only work with the Objects module.

I would like to see the other modules have the capability to group
records into packages for similar batch updating.

Christine Droll | Collections Database Administrator | The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art | Kansas City, MO  

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On Behalf Of Peter Manuelian
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:34 AM
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Subject: Copying Attributes from one media record to another

Hi all,

In the Media module, I'm watching my poor staff add tons of Attributes
to a media record (thesaurus terminology), and then they have to add all
those very same Attributes again, one by one, to the next media record,
even if it is more or less a dupe. 

How wonderful it would be in the next version of TMS to "copy all
attributes" from one record and "paste" them into another record. Anyone
else struggling with this time-waster?

Thanks,

Peter

Peter Der Manuelian
Giza Archives Project Director
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
www.mfa.org/giza, www.gizapyramids.org