I really appreciate the help, but I still seem to be doing something
wrong. Looking at the screen shot below, you can see what I've added to
the Objects module Query Assistant and then the search result I get.
Adding the Term field from the Object-Related Constituents group to the
Query Assistant is fine, but when I then search on the word "female" in
that field, I get nothing. I know we have over 300 Constituent records
that have the Attribute of "female" and which are linked into Object
records as Object-Related Constituents, so I'm not sure what I'm doing
wrong. Thanks once again,
Joe Leduc, Registrar
Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-793-4376
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Subject: Re: searching objects by Constituent attribute
Thank you, Chrisy! I gave this a go, but because there are several
"Constituent " groups, here's a screen shot of what works.
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Subject: Re: searching objects by Constituent attribute
Hi Chrisy,
Thanks for your reply. I had tried adding that field to the Objects
Query Assistant yesterday, but I received (and am still receiving) a
message saying "Cannot drop here". It looks like something in the
Configuration settings is stopping me from adding it, though I can't
tell what (I am logged in as the main system administrator account to
try this). Thanks again,
Joe Leduc, Registrar
Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-793-4376
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Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:56 PM
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Subject: Re: searching objects by Constituent attribute
Hi Joe,
We've put gender in the Constituent attributes as well, and I've added
the term search to the Objects Query Assistant so that it's searchable
through Objects. You can do this through Database Configuration > Query
Groups > Available Hierarchies > Objects> Constituent Xrefs > keep
drilling down until you get to Constituents > Term Search >Thesaurus
Terms. Select the "Term" field there and drag it into the Objects, Query
Assistant section.
Best,
Chrisy
Chrisy Tselentakis
Records Manager and Collections Review Coordinator
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238
Tel: 718-501-6483
Fax: 718-501-6135
www.brooklynmuseum.org
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Subject: searching objects by Constituent attribute
I was wondering if anyone had a report to generate a list of objects
filtered by Constituent attribute or an idea on how to do a search in
the Objects module by the same. This has come up because one of our
educators would like to have a list of all of the objects by female
artists in our collection. We put gender into Constituent records as an
Attribute, so it is a trivial thing to go into the Constituent module,
do a Term search on "female artist" (all words) and come up with all of
the relevant Constituents. But given that there are several hundred of
them, with a number having objects that were merely loans, etc., it's a
pain to construct an object list through that path. I want to run the
search or report in the Objects module, but am finding it tests my
abilities at the moment (and I have no TMS admin right now!). Thanks in
advance,
Joe Leduc, Registrar
Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-793-4376
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