Hi Ying: There is a companion to ItemImport called ItemUpdate that seems to match your use-case better.
See: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Updating+Items+via+Simple+Archive+Format If memory serves, it has been available since 1.6 or so Hope this helps, Richard R On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Ying Jin wrote: > Hi All, > > We use DSpace batch import a lot and sometimes have to replace the > items to fix the metadata or content issues. However, we found the > replacement in itemimport is actually deleting the old item, adding a > new one and then having the old handles back to the item. It generates > several problems. First, it will delete all relationships, for > example, if the item is mapped to another collection, the mapping will > be gone after replacement. Also, when deleting the item, the item's > internal ID changed and it losts its connection with statistical > history. Some of our statistics will show replaced items internal ID > number since the ID changed and it can't match the item title. > > The DSpace 3.0 is releasing next month and we would like to know if it > is possible to have the problem fixed in the new release. > > Thanks, > Ying @ Rice University > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
