[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Report to count number of container types in a collection

[Kayla Skillin]

Thank you both; both of these options work for what I need!

- Kayla


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Kayla Skillin

Assistant Archivist

City of Boston Archives

617.635.1195 (w)


On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Caldera, Mary <mary.caldera at yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi, Kayla,
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> From the application, the easiest way might be to use the extent
> calculator at the resource level. The container types and numbers will be
> generated. Click Close instead of Create extent if you do not want to save
> the generated extant statement. Another way would be to use the Mange
> Containers functionality. It will list all the containers give you an count
> of all the containers, but not by type.
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> I attach a png showing the extent calculated window.
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> Mary Caldera,
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> Head of Arrangement and Description
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> Manuscripts and Archives
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> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] *On Behalf Of *Kayla
> Skillin
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 8, 2017 2:08 PM
> *To:* archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Report to count number of
> container types in a collection
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>
> Hello,
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>
> At the City of Boston Archives, we recently accessioned a large record
> group that contains mostly volumes. To make sure that we have an accurate
> inventory of every single volume, we were wondering if there was a report
> that we could run in ArchivesSpace that allows us to count these volumes?
> We are putting each volume in as an item and listing it as a volume in the
> top container instance so the data should be there, it's just a matter of
> extracting it.
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> This might already exist and I just can't figure it out, but, does anyone
> have any insight into this?
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> Thanks,
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> Kayla
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> [image: Digital_City_Seal_black.png]
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> *Kayla Skillin*
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> Assistant Archivist
>
> City of Boston Archives
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> 617.635.1195 <(617)%20635-1195> (w)
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