[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Archival object spreadsheet importer and Container Type dropdown

[Dan Michelson]

Hi Lara,

Container types are managed through a controlled values list, not the yml
file.  Are there values in that list that are not working with the importer?

All the best,

Dan

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:54 PM Lara Michels <lmichels at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone can advise us on an issue we are encountering with the
> spreadsheet importer for archival objects. There are values for "container
> type" available in our yml file that the spreadsheet importer does not seem
> to recognize. This causes the import to fail. In other words, some "top
> container type" values in the spreadsheet work fine and others do not (even
> though all of them are in the yml file and work perfectly fine when we
> assign them within the instance subrecord). They just don't work in the
> spreadsheet importer, which gives us a message that the system does not
> recognize some values. Any ideas why this might be happening? I cannot see
> anything in the formatting of these values that should be an issue.
>
> Lara
>
> Lara Michels
> Head of Archival Processing
> Bancroft Library
> UC Berkeley
> 510-643-7163
> lmichels at berkeley.edu
>
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