<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Nicole,</div><div><br></div><div>What aspect of the merge function wouldn't meet your requirements? I haven't used it for dealing with this specific situation, but it seems like it would work perfectly. Either create a new box A to merge into or update one of the existing top container records with the appropriate data and merge the others into that one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 1:20 PM Yatsonsky, Nicole <<a href="mailto:yatsonskyn@uncw.edu">yatsonskyn@uncw.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are condensing several boxes from collections into multiple-collection boxes. For example, Collection# 1 Box 1, Collection #2 Box 5, and Collection# 3, Box 10 will now all be in Box A.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to simply replace all instances of Box 1 in Collection 1’s resource record with Box A, maintaining any child information like folder numbers in the Instances, without having to individually click on each archival object and
update the instance?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There aren’t enough archival objects to warrant exporting as a CSV, editing the file, and then importing it back, but just enough to sometimes make it a hassle in certain resource records. Since these new top containers are linked to multiple
resource records, I’m also wary of it creating duplicates that way.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Essentially it would be helpful if there was basically a way in the Top Containers page to “replace” a box with another, though I don’t see anything like that, and merge isn’t exactly what we’re looking for.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Nicole Yatsonsky, CA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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