[Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records

Ben Goldman bmg17 at psu.edu
Fri Nov 14 15:51:48 EST 2014


Thanks to everyone who's been testing this and reporting back to the list. At Penn State we have not had a chance to test this yet as we haven't upgraded to 1.1, but I would just add that this particular bug has led us to effectively freeze all data entry at the component level of resource records, because the results are just too unpredictable and difficult to remediate. I suspect that other ASpace users might feel the same way. I would hope that ArchivesSpace could prioritize this fix for immediate release. 

Thanks, 
Ben 



Ben Goldman 
Digital Records Archivist 
Penn State University Libraries 
University Park, PA 
814-863-8333 
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls.html 


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From: "Lora Davis" <ljdavis at colgate.edu> 
To: "Archivesspace Users Group" <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 3:43:19 PM 
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 

Yes, just to reiterate what Allyson, Elliot, and Teresa have shared - this happens at random but does not seem to be directly correlated (at least for us) to actually dragging/dropping/moving components. A case in point: I've been going through and adding access restriction notes to various components within existing administrative collections. Last week I clicked on several existing components in a resource record, added conditions governing access notes to those components, saved the changes, and went about the rest of my day. The following day I pulled up the resource to answer a reference question and, lo and behold, it appeared as if someone had dipped a giant wooden spoon into the cauldron that was the collection and stirred all the components about in an infuriatingly nonsensical way to make component soup of our previously well-ordered resource record. 

Payten - Thanks for sharing this code, but just to confirm, have you tested this fix against the scenario I describe (editing but not moving a component)? I just want clarification since the description for your patch ("Patch for drag and drop causing record to lose position/parent") does not align with the primary problem we are encountering. Again, thanks for your hard work. 

Chris - Do we have a timeline for this release? We are seeing many benefits to our transition to ArchivesSpace, but this problem has been a constant thorn in our sides since we first reported it in June. We had hoped that 1.1.0 would resolve this issue (as we'd been told it would), but we remain anxious for the day when we can rest assured that ArchivesSpace gnomes won't enter our resources at night and scramble them all about. 

Best, 

Lora Davis 

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick < Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org > wrote: 





Ah, awesome Payten. 

I couldn't get this to replicate and was thinking it was something in the backend. 




Will apply this and include it in the next release. 

Thanks! 


b,chris. 



Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace 
Skype: chrisfitzpat | Phone: 918.236.6048 
http://archivesspace.org/ 

From: Payten Giles < payten.giles at gmail.com > 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:44 AM 
To: Chris Fitzpatrick; Archivesspace Users Group 

Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 
Hi there Chris, Allyson, 

Eavesdropping a little bit and the guilt of writing this code became too much! 

Chris, this looks like a little bug in the tree.js where we aren’t checking the correct node.. the comment says the right thing while the code does the wrong thing. Here’s a gist of a potential patch: 

https://gist.github.com/payten/649819e7f08d0de3e945 

To replicate I have a Resource hierarchy something like this: 

- Resource 
- AO Parent 
- AO Child 1 
- AO Child 2 
- AO Child 3 
- AO Child 4 

I select and go to edit ‘AO Child 3’. When that form is visible I drag ‘AO Child 4’ above to become the first sibling. I then continue to edit ‘AO Child 3’ and refresh the page. ‘A0 Child 3’ is now positioned directly under ‘Resource’. 

Happy to put together a more formal pull request if you like. 

Cheers, 
Payten 


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On 11 Nov 2014, at 12:53 am, Chris Fitzpatrick < Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org > wrote: 

Hi Allyson, 

Unfortuantely, I haven't been able to replicate the problem of component movements not sticking. See => 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRF7huQ7tqKS29oM2RZZWNubGc/view?usp=sharing ) 

In edit mode, I'm able to drag and drop components, reload the page, or go to the view page. 

Is this happening for every record every time for you? Or is it an infrequent thing? 

Not doubting you ( I promise! ) , just trying to see when this is happening... 

b,chris. 

Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace 
Skype: chrisfitzpat | Phone: 918.236.6048 
http://archivesspace.org/ 

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org < archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org > on behalf of Allyson Smally < asmally at colgate.edu > 
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 6:04 PM 
To: Archivesspace Users Group 
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 
Hello all - 

Unfortunately, after upgrading to the newest release, we are still having this problem. 
Archival objects are reordering themselves after being edited. 

Is anyone else still having this problem? Does anyone know of a solution? 

Thanks very much, 
Allyson 

Allyson E. Smally 
Processing Archivist 
Colgate University Libraries 
13 Oak Drive 
Hamilton, NY 13346 
(315) 228-7867 

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Ben Goldman < bmg17 at psu.edu > wrote: 

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Hi Chris, 

Archival object tree. 

Thanks! 
-Ben 


From: "Chris Fitzpatrick" < Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org > 
To: "Archivesspace Users Group" < archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org > 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:46:10 AM 

Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 

Hey Ben, 

Soon, I promise! 

But just to check, are you talking about reording the archival object tree for the resource or the order of things like notes and subjects? 

b,chris. 

Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace 
Skype: chrisfitzpat | Phone: 918.236.6048 
http://archivesspace.org/ 

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org < archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org > on behalf of Ben Goldman < bmg17 at psu.edu > 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:19 PM 
To: Archivesspace Users Group 
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 
Thanks, Allyson. I knew it sounded familiar! 

Do we have an ETA on the next release yet? :) 

-Ben 


From: "Allyson Smally" < asmally at colgate.edu > 
To: "Archivesspace Users Group" < archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org > 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 4:15:04 PM 
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering objects in resource records 

Hi Ben, 

Yes, from what I understand this is a known issue. It has been happening to us a lot as well. 
At SAA this August, I was told it would be fixed in the next release. 

-Allyson 

Allyson E. Smally 
Processing Archivist 
Colgate University Libraries 
13 Oak Drive 
Hamilton, NY 13346 
(315) 228-7867 

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Ben Goldman < bmg17 at psu.edu > wrote: 

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Hello, 

I've just experienced an issue and on a cursory search can't tell if it's been noted in PivotalTracker yet or discussed here yet. 

I've been editing an inventory object-by-object in a resource record, saving each object as I updated it. In one instance I reordered one of the objects by dragging it further down the tree, then continued editing other objects. Then I reached an object that could be removed, clicked to delete it, the resource reloaded in View mode, and the objects appeared to shuffle, and not seemingly in the order I started with. 

-Ben 

Ben Goldman 
Digital Records Archivist 
Penn State University Libraries 
University Park, PA 
814-863-8333 
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls.html 







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Colgate University Libraries 
13 Oak Drive 
Hamilton, NY 13346 
(315) 228-7867 
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