[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Linking multiple top containers at once

[Yatsonsky, Nicole]

Hi y'all-apologies if this is duplicated, but I checked the list and help center/JIRA tickets and didn't find anything.

I could be completely missing the obvious, but is there a way to link more than one top container at a time to a resource record or archival object etc. when adding top containers that already exist?

For example, when creating accession records, we add the top containers of the accession there, and then link those top containers to the associated resource record so we have a complete count of the number of boxes actually part of that collection, but in doing so, I have to individually add and browse for each instance one at a time. The browse function also of course resets itself between instances, so I have to X out the collection name and then search again for the accession record, and then finally select the next top container.

I know this can be done via the spreadsheet and the top container IDs, but that seems like extra work for times there aren't that many, and I know technically each instance is independent of the next, but it seems like just clicking through the top containers you want in one shot would be more efficient.

Does anyone have a solution or found a work around? Thank you!

Nicole Yatsonsky, CA
Special Collections Specialist
Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History<https://library.uncw.edu/archives_special/>
Randall Library @ UNC Wilmington
910-962-3412

"The great use of a life is to spend it for
something that outlasts it."  ~ William James

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