Maintenance - Agents

To synchronize the names of collectors, determinators etc. which are linked to the module DiversityAgents choose Administration -> Maintenance from the menu. A window will open as shown below. On the tab page Collection <-> Agents select the project for which the agents should be synchronized. There are 9 tables which may contain links to DiversityAgents: Collection, CollectionAgent, CollectionEventLocalisation, CollectionEventProperty, CollectionSpecimen, CollectionSpecimenProcessing, Identification, IdentificationUnitAnalysis and Transaction. Choose one of these tables for the synchronization. Then start the query with a click on the  button. The type name is written as defined by the default display type in the module DiversityAgents - for more information please see the documentation on DiversityAgents.

The form will list all differences found. To update the database click on the button. If you wish to have a more detailed look on one of the data sets in the list, you need to check the "Include accession number" checkbox before starting the query. A button will appear which will take you back to a single data set in the database.

 

Search for possible links

You can either update the cached names for entries which are linked to DiversityAgents as described above or you can search for possible links based on the names as shown below. In addition to the options described above you may choose the display type for the query to find any possible match as names may be written like "Hertel, H.", "H. Hertel" etc.

 

Splitting collectors

If the collectors had been written in one field with separators like & you can split these to create a separate entry for every collector (see below). Choose the project, enter the separator or select one of the predefined separators and click on the Search for names to split button. The result will be shown as in the example below. Click on the Start update button to split the collectors. If several separators had been used you have to do the splitting for every single separator.