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[Mick Eadie]

hello Abid

There are a couple of ways you could do this  - if you just wanted to use the eprints admin interface then there is a field in the eprint table called 'userid' which is the depositing user of that eprint 

If you add this userid field to your staff/admin search - in our repository the configuration file for this is here: /archives/YOUR REPO NAME/cfg/cfg.d/eprint_search_staff.pl

Then you should be able to then search for all items belonging to '37' and then do a bulk update using the batch editing tool on the field 'Depositing user'.

Regards

Mick

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Seeking Solution: Bulk Reassign Items depositing owner After User Deletion in EPrints

AFA <abidfak...@gmail.com>: Sep 07 11:41PM -0700 Hi All,   We are using EPrints version 3.4.3, having more than 8000 records in the repository.   After deleting an inactive user (s) account, we have encountered a problem where all the items deposited by that user (s) now display the following message on their abstract page:   *Depositing User: Users 37 not found.*     1. How to identify all affected records? What is the best method to find all items in the repository that show this "user not found" error for a specific deleted user ID? A simple search for the text "not found" does not seem to work within the standard search interface. 2. How to perform the bulk reassignment? Once identified, we need to bulk-reassign the "depositing user" for these items     I have explored the Admin interface and not found any Bulk Edit tool to manage such task in the repository.   Thanks and Best Regards, Abid Fakhre Alam

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