[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Archival object spreadsheet importer and Container Type dropdown

[Lara Michels]

Thanks, Valerie. I will try that.

Lara

Lara Michels
Head of Archival Processing
Bancroft Library
UC Berkeley
510-643-7163
lmichels at berkeley.edu



On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:11 AM Valerie Addonizio <vaddonizio at atlas-sys.com>
wrote:

> Hi Lara,
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>
> Have you tried using the value and not the label? For example, Microfilm
> Box may be the label, but microfilm_box the value. Try using the latter if
> you haven’t already.
>
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> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> *On Behalf Of *Dan
> Michelson
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 16, 2021 12:59 PM
> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group <
> archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Archival object spreadsheet
> importer and Container Type dropdown
>
>
>
> Hi Lara,
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> 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?
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> All the best,
>
>
>
> Dan
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>
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> 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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>
>
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