[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Batch deleting unassociated top containers

[Hand, Sarit]

Hi,

Just to be clear on this, you can do this in the ASpace application under manage top containers. There is a field “Unassociated containers”, just select “Yes” and all unassociated containers will appear. Click the top check box to select all, click “Bulk Operations” and “Delete Top Containers”.

I would follow Dan’s advise and do it when no one else is working in the system or on Top Containers. It also always you to sort and select specific top containers if you want to target specific ones.

Cheers,
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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
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Batch deleting unassociated top containers


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Hi Lev,

I regularly delete unassociated top containers since it's so easy to end up with them and have never had problems.

The only precaution I take is not to delete them when anyone else is doing work that might involve creation of new top containers on the off chance that they might have created a top container but not linked it to anything in the moment that I ran the search.

Unless you have workflows that involve creating new top containers in advance of linking them to records (which is very unlikely, we have an odd use case where we do that under certain circumstances), I can't think of any other potential issues.

All the best,

Dan


On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:01 PM Earle, Lev <learle at library.rochester.edu<mailto:learle at library.rochester.edu>> wrote:
Hello everyone,

This is a bit of a silly question, but I’ve just stumbled on how to batch delete unassociated top containers in the back end, and wanted to see if anyone else had noticed any adverse effects when doing this. It would certainly be nice to get rid of all of them at once, but considering we have almost 6000 of them (I’m hiding my face in shame), we’re a little nervy about pushing that button.

Cheers,
-Lev.

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