Please see Summary of Listserv Discussions (Sep-Dec 2015)
Status | Topic | Question | Answer or Link | Relevant sub group |
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General | Where can I find and/or submit user-created scripts/plugins? | Currently being discussed on listserv | ||
General | Where can I find a list of institutions who are live with ArchivesSpace? | Christine's answer | ||
General | How can ArchivesSpace be integrated with other applications? | |||
General | Where does ArchivesSpace fit into the archival workflow? |
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General | Can I edit the ArchivesSpace wiki? | Christine's message on requesting JIRA accounts | ||
System | What ports do different ArchivesSpace components run on? | Inspired by this question | ||
System | How do I backup ArchivesSpace? | GitHub docu | ||
System | How big does a production MySQL database tend to be? | List question | ||
System | What authentication methods can be used with ArchivesSpace? |
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System | How do I install ArchivesSpace on a Windows/MySQL server? | Good step by step instructions provided by user | ||
Functionality | What defines a repository? | Inspired by this discussion (subjects and agents are shared across repositories, as well as user defined labels possibly) | ||
Functionality | What is the difference between an archival object and an instance? | Based on discussion here | ||
Functionality | What is the role of the digital object module in an institution's archival workflow? | Good listserv answer | ||
Functionality | What is the role of digital object components? | Brad's answer | ||
API | How do I use cURL to interact with the API? | |||
API | How do I use the API to manipulate data for public display? | |||
API | How do I run an advanced search using the API? | Answer | ||
API | How can I batch associate digital objects with archival objects? | Examples in thread |
Suggested Questions
- Customizing ArchivesSpace
- How do I set default values for accession and resource records?
- How do I set permissions per repository/group?
- How do I customize ArchivesSpace URLs? (e.g., custom domains and subdomains)
- How do I set a default repository?
- Asked here, no answer (I feel like I used to see this question a lot)
- Can I restrict the visibility of agent contact information based on staff permission level? (user oriented?)
- Asked here, no answer
- How do I set up Google Analytics to work with ArchivesSpace?
- Can I run ArchivesSpace using the default database?
- Should not be used for production (from official documentation):
- "Out of the box, the ArchivesSpace distribution runs against an embedded database, but this is only suitable for demonstration purposes. When you are ready to starting using ArchivesSpace with real users and data, you should switch to using MySQL. MySQL offers significantly better performance when multiple people are using the system, and will ensure that your data is kept safe."
- Should not be used for production (from official documentation):
- How do I change the look and feel of ArchivesSpace (e.g., adding my institution's logo)?
- How do I add user defined fields?
- Config.rb
- How can I change tooltips?
- Importing/exporting
- How do I customize exports?
- How do I import Word EAD files?
- Tool developed by UVA (not public though)
- How do I import CSV accession records?
- Asked on listserv, no answer
- How do I batch create digital objects?
- How do I convert MARC records to EAD for importing into ArchivesSpace?
- Can I customize the PDF output?
- How do I map EAD to MODS?
- Why do container IDs change on every export?
- How do I set EAD elements to always be published (unless they have an internal audience) when importing EAD files?
- Can I include the public interface URL for a record in its exported EAD?
- Why am I getting an "invalid byte sequence" error when importing a CSV file?
- May be caused by importing a CSV that was created through MS Excel, use Google Sheets instead (listserv discussion)
- How can I make the EAD XML output prettier?
- Migration
- Why do I have duplicate records after migrating?
- Why do I have duplicate records after migrating?
- Reports
- How do I enable Jasper reports?
- How can I edit the SQL for a Jasper report?
- Upgrading
- General question about where to find/discuss functionality changes after upgrade?
- Based on long discussion here
- Can I skip versions when upgrading?
- Indexing
- When should I reset the index?
- When records are not showing up in search results after making changes (list question)
- Duplicate records after migrating (list question)
- Formerly deleted items or non-existent repositories are still displaying (list question)
- How do I reset the index?
- Why is the Solr indexer constantly rebuilding the index/running in a loop?
- Chris's answer (when a record has a circular parent/child relationship)
- When should I reset the index?
- Bugs
- Current top bugs?
- E.g, component reordering
- Bug wranglers have discussed created monthly report
- How do I report a bug?
- Error Messages
- What does the "translation missing: en.enumerations" error mean?