[Archivesspace_Users_Group] rapid data entry behaviors

Allyson Smally asmally at colgate.edu
Fri Aug 1 13:56:01 EDT 2014


I agree that being able to see the spreadsheet-like screen for data that
has already been entered would be amazing.

-Allyson


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Callahan, Maureen <maureen.callahan at yale.edu
> wrote:

>  HI, all –
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> Me again. A source of absolute delight among our ASpace user training
> group was the Rapid Data Entry mode. They loved the spreadsheet-like view
> and functionalities.
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> However, we found that RDE was particularly prone to slow response to user
> inputs – users had trouble getting the system to respond to resizing column
> widths, saving rows, and using the tool that fills a column with a value or
> sequence. Like I mentioned in my previous email, any advice for improving
> performance would be welcome.
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> We also have a feature request – we agreed that it would be truly, truly
> rad if we could see the spreadsheet-like RDE screen for data that has
> already been entered. So often, a data clean-up task will call for changing
> a data element across sibling components – being able to see those
> components at the same time would be hugely helpful.
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> Thanks again, and have a great weekend, everyone.
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> Maureen
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> Maureen Callahan
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> Archivist, Metadata Specialist
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> Manuscripts & Archives
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> Yale University Library
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> maureen.callahan at yale.edu
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Allyson E. Smally
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