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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi, Sue,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I had no idea this was the case. The list for finding aid status is completely configurable by a repository manager. Typically that would mean all the values are purely descriptive and do not drive functionality in the application
or in downstream systems. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">But I see that is not really the case. A resource lacking a value for finding aid status displays in the Publc UI like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Whereas the same resource description with the finding aid status encoded for “Completed” displays like this: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When encoding the finding aid status element as “In progress” | “Under revision” | “Unprocessed”, the display is the same as when no value is provided.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I can’t explain the presence of this functionality you have discovered. You’re right that the functionality is not explained in the user documentation. It’s also not traceable to the resource specification, which represents the list
as being only descriptive:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>I also cannot find a development ticket accounting for the functionality, unless it is an unintended effect of something else such as
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-705"><span style="color:#3B73AF">AR-705</span></a> or
</span><a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-755"><span class="issue-link-key"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B73AF;text-decoration:none">AR-755</span></span></a>.<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">So why this functionality is there is a mystery to me, but it does seem clearly tied to the value “Completed”.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">So should this functionality remain as it is, in which case, the controlled value list has to be modified so that “Completed” cannot be deleted or merged into a different value? Or should the behavior now associated with the value of
“Completed” in the finding aid status element be true for all front matter whenever it is present and not be tied to the value in finding aid status? Indeed, should not the finding aid status value itself be added to the displayed front matter?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Brad W.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bradley D. Westbrook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:brad@archivesspace.org"><span style="color:#1F497D">brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">800.999.8558 x2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">678.235.2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">bradley_d_westbrook (Skype) </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Susan Luftschein<br>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 2:05 PM<br>
To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org<br>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Finding Aid Status dropdown</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I have searched the documentation and cannot find any explanation for the entries in the finding aid status dropdown.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Some background: all our AT data was migrated to a LYRASIS hosted instance of ArchivesSpace, and the AT statuses were included in that migration. We have continued to use them because they are meaningful to us, but I just discovered
yesterday (the day we went live) that the ASpace statuses actually have a meaning! Since we are now going to have to use them, I’d like to know exactly what all of them do (the only one I am sure of is Completed, which means all front matter appears in the
public display of a resource record).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Can anyone enlighten me?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sue Luftschein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Archival and Metadata Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Special Collections<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">USC Libraries<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:luftsche@usc.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">luftsche@usc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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