Hi Jennifer,
I too ran into the same problem when I was
cleaning up thesaurus terms in the attributes for constituents. Often when you
delete an attribute term from a record it will remain linked to the record as
inactive. Make sure you right click in the attributes field and select show inactive,
then delete the term a second time. It should no longer be linked after it is
fully removed. At the moment it seems you will have to bring up the records you
previously were deleting the terms from and check that the terms are not still
linked to the records as inactive. Does this help?
Cheers,
Julienne
Julienne Pascoe
Asst., Collection Information and
Resources
Art Gallery of Ontario
416.979.6660 x 262
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Forgot to mention that I’m using
TMS 2010, in case that has an impact on how to resolve my problem.
Jennifer
Jennifer Day
Registrar,
School for Advanced Research
Phone: 505-954-7205
Fax: 505-54-7207
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from thesaurus
Hello,
I
am a relatively new TMS user and have recently decided to dive into thesaurus
management. For my first task, I am attempting to clean up our very “eccentric”
terms, which include many duplicate terms (under Authorities). I have
been trying to delete all links to particular terms so I can delete them from
the thesaurus entirely, but several times now I have run into this problem:
When
I try to delete the desired term, it tells me the term is in use 1 time. I can
delete all but the one link, but I can’t locate the record that is using
the term. I have run queries every way I can think of, but I can’t find
the offending records. I have looked for archived terms, but can’t find
any of those either. Does anyone have ideas about how I could locate these
records? Or if there is something I’m not taking into consideration that
I should?
Many
thanks,
Jennifer
Jennifer Day
Registrar,
School for Advanced Research
Phone: 505-954-7205
Fax: 505-54-7207
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