Single transfer with multiple folders generating multiple AIPs
Natalie Vielfaure
Hi everyone,
Encountered something in Archivematica trying out a new workflow and wondering if it's an expected behaviour/limitation or potentially a bug? Nothing in the documentation describes what we're encountering as far as we know...
I started a standard transfer in the Archivematica dashboard and selected and added two separate directories to that transfer in the backlog from the dashboard, before starting the transfer. Two transfers started from that single transfer, both with the transfer name assigned, but one transfer has "_1" added to the end of the transfer name. One transfer holds records from one of the folders in the original transfer I tried starting and the other holds the rest.
Does Archivematica only allow you to transfer one folder (including subdirectories in it) at a time? Or is this an issue? I thought maybe initially it was a limitation, but some documentation for 1.16 does imply one AIP should be generated from a single transfer (“Name your transfer. The transfer name will become the name of your AIP, so make sure that the name is meaningful.”)
Any clarification/information would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Maryna Chernyavska
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Sean Kalynuk
Thanks Maryna. It also does say this in the latest documentation: https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.16/user-manual/transfer/transfer/#basic-transfers.
The documentation can be a bit misleading though since it also simply says “Selecting a directory and clicking Add adds the directory of materials to the transfer”, but it is not clear that adding two or more directories will spawn two or more separate transfers. Each of the additional transfer names ends up with a “_N” extension for uniqueness but I have not yet found a description of this behaviour in the latest documentation.
If any of the documentation maintainers happen to see this post, it would be nice if this was made clear somewhere in the Transfer section (https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.16/user-manual/transfer/transfer/), at least for when working with a basic transfer.
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Sean Kalynuk
Issue reported:
https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/1699
I hope it all makes sense (and doesn’t sound too picky). 😊
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