<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>All,<br></div><div><br></div><div>As a follow-up on the previously reported reordering from merge issue I wanted to report that we are still experiencing the same problem after the installation of the new 1.21.2 maintenance plug-in. On the bright side, during our limited testing we have not yet encountered any other scenarios for reordering.</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Matt Francis</span><div><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Archivist for Collection Management</span></div><div><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Special Collections Library<br>Penn State University</span></div><div><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Twitter: @archivingmatt</span></div><div><span face="georgia, serif" size="2" data-mce-style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">http://www.archivingmatt.com</span></div><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Lora Davis" <ljdavis@colgate.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Archivesspace Users Group" <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, March 9, 2015 7:02:23 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] reordering from merge<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">No advice to offer, but to express a simple "you are not alone."<div><br></div><div>I've recently begun doing the same - merging detailed collection-level records created during a collection inventory with existing container lists ead-ified from Excel thanks to the new ASpace-friendly update to Steady. The first (small) collection merged beautifully with all components remaining in desired order; following the exact same procedures a second, much larger (of course!) collection came out as what I've taken to lovingly calling "component soup."</div><div><br></div><div>I've stopped with this work for the time-being in the hopes that the upcoming patch might help. Fingers firmly crossed.</div><div><br></div><div>Lora</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:46 PM, MATTHEW R FRANCIS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrf22@psu.edu" target="_blank">mrf22@psu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>I recently encountered a "new for us" reordering problem while working in ASpace v.1.1.2.</div><div><br></div><div>This time the reordering occurred when you used the merge function to merge together two resources records (was attempting to merge a resource record with an inventory and minimum collection level data into a resource record with rich collection level inventory but no inventory) . Once the merge was complete the series were reordered in a random fashion (e.g. it went series 9, 11, 2, 1, 6, etc.), but the original order for all the archival objects under each series was maintained.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if anyone else has encountered this issue, but thought it was worth reporting.</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt </div><div><br></div><div><span></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Matt Francis</span><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Archivist for Collection Management</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Special Collections Library<br>Penn State University</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Twitter: @archivingmatt</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.archivingmatt.com" target="_blank">http://www.archivingmatt.com</a></span></div><span></span><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lora J. Davis<br>Collections Archivist<br>Colgate University Libraries<br>13 Oak Drive<br>Hamilton, NY 13346<div>Tel: (315) 228-6376<br>Fax: (315) 228-7934</div></div></div></div>
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