Aha! Thank you both.
From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org
On Behalf Of Joshua
D. Shaw
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 2:54 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] External ID
There's actually a plugin that we had HM develop
...@lyralists.lyrasis.org
on behalf of
Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 2:45 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] External ID
We’ve used this config feature for so long (since v1.4.*) that I had forgotten
it was necessary
We’ve used this config feature for so long (since v1.4.*) that I had forgotten
it was necessary to turn it on to see external_ids.
My advice, in earlier threads, to use the EAD mapping between multiple unitids
and external_ids for some issues must have seemed somewhat confusing if anyone
AppConfig[:show_external_ids] = true
will allow you to view and edit existing external ids in staff interface, but
it doesn’t allow you to create them.
Ours are added either from EAD import or via backend API.
I had once forked changes in an older version to allow creating them from the
Has anyone tried to set up the external id field so that a user can create (or
edit) an external_id via the staff UI? Is that possible?
Nancy Kennedy
Smithsonian Institution
kenne...@si.edu
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