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 | ||
Customization | How do I set default values for accession and resource records? | Good writeup by Brad | ||
Customization | How do I set permissions per repository/group? | Discussion here | ||
Customization | How do I customize ArchivesSpace URLs? (e.g., custom domains and subdomains) | |||
Customization | How do I set a default repository? | Asked here, no answer (I feel like I used to see this question a lot) | ||
Customization | Can I restrict the visibility of agent contact information based on staff permission level? (user oriented?) | Asked here, no answer | ||
Customization | How do I set up Google Analytics to work with ArchivesSpace? | Chris's answer | ||
Customization | Can I run ArchivesSpace using the default database? | Should not be used for production (from official documentation):
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Customization | How do I change the look and feel of ArchivesSpace (e.g., adding my institution's logo)? | |||
Customization | How do I add user defined fields? | |||
Customization | config.rb overview | |||
Customization | How can I change tooltips? | Brief answer | ||
Candidate for labs/community repo? | Importing/exporting | How do I customize exports? | The blog post references a GitHub repo that's example of to customize the EAD exporter. Would be nice if the how to add as a plugin info from the blog post was in the repo's readme. | Candidate for labs/community repo? |
Importing/exporting | How do I import Word EAD files? | Tool developed by UVA (not public though) | ||
User Documentation | Importing/exporting | How do I import CSV accession records? | Asked on listserv, no answer. Covered by user documentation: https://docs.archivesspace.org/Default.htm#ImportCSV.htm | |
Candidate for labs/community repo? | Importing/exporting | How do I batch create digital objects? | The user documentation covers importing Digital Objects via CSV and using RDE templates. The script referenced on the listserv provides an example of using the API to batch create digital objects and linking them as an instance of an existing archival object. | Candidate for labs/community repo? |
User Documentation / Out of Scope | Importing/exporting | How do I convert MARC records to EAD for importing into ArchivesSpace? | AS (and the user documentation) already covers importing MARCXML, so I wonder if this is worth including? | Possible candidate for labs/comnunity repo if relevant |
Importing/exporting | Can I customize the PDF output? | Some pointers on a newer thread. Answer would basically be a pointer to the stylesheet used to generate the PDF. | Candidate for labs/community repo by creating an example modification? | |
Out of scope? | Importing/exporting | How do I map EAD to MODS? | Stylesheet provided on listserv Original question was about mapping EAD to MODs for ingesting AS data into Islandora. | Integrations? |
Importing/exporting | Why do container IDs change on every export? | Listserv discussion | ||
Importing/exporting | How do I set EAD elements to always be published (unless they have an internal audience) when importing EAD files? | Listserv answer | ||
Importing/exporting | Can I include the public interface URL for a record in its exported EAD? | Asked on listserv, no answer | ||
Out of scope | Importing/exporting | 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) Seems more like a general why does Excel generate crappy CSV question. Not esp unique to AS. | |
Out of scope | Importing/exporting | How can I make the EAD XML output prettier? | Suggestions in listserv thread Seems more like a general how to format XML question. Not esp unique to AS. | |
Migration | Why do I have duplicate records after migrating? | Need to rebuild index | ||
Reports | How do I enable Jasper reports? | Listserv answer | ||
Reports | How can I edit the SQL for a Jasper report? | Listserv answer | ||
Upgrading | General question about where to find/discuss functionality changes after upgrade? | Based on long discussion here | ||
Upgrading | Can I skip versions when upgrading? | |||
Indexing | When should I reset the index? |
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Indexing | How do I reset the index? | Good explanation of what the different index directories do | ||
Indexing | 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) | ||
Bugs | Current top bugs? |
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Bugs | How do I report a bug? | Chris’s answer | ||
Error Messages | What does the "translation missing: en.enumerations" error mean? | Listserv question |