Edit an existing archival description

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Edit description

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   Edit an existing description
   Navigate to the description you want to edit. For more information on navigation in ICA-AtoM, see access content
2. Switch from view mode to edit mode by clicking the title or edit button; this takes you to the record's edit page. On loading, the edit page displays the record with all information areas closed; click on an information area to access the fields grouped under it
3. Add/revise data as required
4. To discard all changes, click the "Cancel" button in the button block; ICA-AtoM returns you to the view page, with no changes saved
5. To save changes, click the "Save" button in the button block

In Release 1.3 ICA-AtoM introduced the ability to relate new accessions to existing archival descriptions. If you select an archival description that has a related accession, the view archival description record will include an "Accessions area" and all related accessions will be listed. Clicking on the blue hyperlink in the Accessions area will redirect the User to the view accessions record page. For more information about accessions, see Add accession.

Note Accessions area in the archival description

Duplicate an existing description

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   Click the "Duplicate" button in the button block to make a duplicate descriptive record
   At the bottom of the archival description edit page click the duplicate button in the button block to make a duplicate archival description.
2. The user is directed to a new screen and can edit the duplicate archival description, which is an exact duplicate of the original archival description. Before starting the edit page provides a warning.
3. After editing the duplicate archival description, the user can cancel or save the changes.
   

   Warning shown to user in duplicate record edit page
4. Saving the changes creates a new archival description.

Publish description

Publish a draft description

1. All new and imported archival descriptions are automatically saved as draft records. This means that users who are not authenticated cannot view these records. To publish the records, select "publish" in the gray box at the bottom of the edit page
2. Publication status is inherited from the highest level of description; for example, when a fonds description is changed from draft to published, all child levels within the fonds are automatically changed as well
3. If a contributor (i.e. a user without permission to publish descriptions) edits a published record the record's status is automatically changed back to draft

Move description from one parent to another

Click "Move here" to make the description you are moving a top-level description, or click on one of the blue links

• In ICA-AtoM 1.2 to move a description to another part of the same fonds, a logged-in User can take the cursor and select the title/id of the archival description in the context menu /treeview hierarchy and move /drag-and-drop it laterally (e.g., move an item from one series to another series within the same fonds) or vertically (e.g., move an item from a file to a series within the same fonds). In ICA-AtoM 1.3, logged-in Users can drag-and-drop children within the same level, for example moving series 02 above series 01 or moving items around within the same file. In 1.3 logged-in Users CANNOT move a child descendant from one level of description to another, for example moving an item from a file of photographs to a file of correspondence. Users must use the move tool, as described below, in order to move a description laterally (e.g., move an item in a file to another file) or vertically (e.g., move an item in a file to a series) and moving an archival description from one fonds to another fonds (e.g., move a series from one fonds to a different fonds).
• To move a description from one fonds to another, open the view page for the description you want to move and click the "Move" button in the button block. Select a description from the list, or search for the desired description, open it by clicking on the blue hyperlink, and then select "Move here". The blue hyperlinks allow Users to drill down into the hierarchy of the archival description selected. A bread crumb trail will appear above the list of potential archival descriptions to help Users understand if they are moving to a sous-fonds, series, sub-series, or a file.
• To make a child-level description a top-level description (e.g. to turn a series into a fonds), click "Move here" without selecting one of the blue links.

Moving any description using these methods also moves all child-level descriptions of the description being moved. For example, if you move a series that has file-level descriptions attached, all the file-level descriptions will be moved along with the series.