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Re: [EP-tech] bulk addition of divisions

To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Ranju Upadhyay" <Ranju.Upadhyay@mu.ie>, "Rory McNicholl" <Rory.McNicholl@london.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] bulk addition of divisions
From: John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 09:03:22 +0000

If it doesn't work, I've got a bin script that might help.

It can basically do:

Search eprint dataset for division=A

For every eprint the results list:

- Get the existing divisions

- append Division=B to the divisions array (if it's not there already)

- Commit

Cheers,

John

From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ranju Upadhyay via Eprints-tech
Sent: 10 May 2019 09:59
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk; Rory McNicholl <Rory.McNicholl@london.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] bulk addition of divisions

Thanks Rory, I will try this out.

Thanks

Ranju

Ranju Upadhyay Rai

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of Rory McNicholl via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday 10 May 2019 09:33:56
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk; Ranju Upadhyay
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] bulk addition of divisions

Hi Ranju,

If you use the admin search to search for all items in division A, you can then use the "batch edit" feature, displayed on the results page, to append division B to all those items in one go.

(If you've not used the batch edit feature before, I'd suggest trying it out on a very small result set first).

Thanks,

Rory

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of Ranju Upadhyay via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 10 May 2019 09:27
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] bulk addition of divisions

Hi List,

we have a task of adding divisions/department to existing (several hundred) eprints in our IR.

So, currently the items are assigned department/division "A" and now we need to give them Department "A" and Department "B". What would be the most effecient way of doing this?

I know we can always edit individual item from the interface. However I was wondering if there is any other way too, since we have a very large number of items to be edited.

Regards