Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Hello everyone, Follow-up question on this (hopefully my last question!). We use the spreadsheet importer to process all of our archives. So, the archivists create unique IDs directly in the spreadsheet and then they are uploaded to ArchivesSpace. If we used a manual or tech solution to auto

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Hello Joshua, That’s all very understandable! Thanks so much for your guidance. Anna --- Anna Haywood Archiviste Archivist Centre Canadien d'Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture 1920, rue Baile, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3H 2S6 +1 5149397001x1368

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

I should qualify that as 'unique to all archival objects?'. Any other object (resource, accession, etc) may have the same id number, though the number is unique within the type of object. Hope that isn't confusing! Joshua From:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Hi Anna The archival object id in the url is unique across all repos, so you should be OK to use that as your unique id. Best, Joshua From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Anna Haywood Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Hello Alex and Rachel, Thank you both so much for these suggestions, I will look into them and see if my IT dept. can help. I also saw on an old post (from 2018) that someone had used the number in the url to create the CUI. So for instance, using /repositories/2/archival_objects/4131 to make

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Anna, We use a plugin to achieve something very similar here at NYPL - https://github.com/alexduryee/aspace_serial_numbers. This auto-generates a component_id when an archival object is saved without an ID, starting from 300 and incrementing by 1 each time (using ASpace's built-in Sequence).

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto generating unique IDs

Hello Anna, You might want to look into the Digitization Work Order plugin , which might meet your needs. The plugin allows you to generate unique identifiers for selected archival objects within a resource record that is then added to that

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