[Archon-L] Record Groups Identification Question

[Jason Fowler]

I can confirm that this has worked for me as well.

Jason Fowler, CA
Archives and Special Collections Librarian
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
502-897-4573
jfowler at sbts.edu
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From: archon-bounces at archon.org [archon-bounces at archon.org] On Behalf Of Wood, Thomas J [twood1 at uis.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:11 PM
To: Kyle Fox; Kyle Rimkus
Cc: archon at archon.org
Subject: Re: [Archon-L] Record Groups Identification Question

In May of last year we exchanged some e-mails with Chris Prom about the
issue of using letters in the number field of the classification
manager. This was his advice:

"Go into the MySQL server or SQL server where the raw archon database is
stored.  Once in, open the Table titled tblCol_Classifications, then
change the field type for the 'Number' field from 'int' or 'number' to
'varchar' I'd choose a relatively short field length, such as 10
characters."

It seems to have worked.

Thomas J Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections
Norris L Brookens Library, Room 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407
217-206-6520 | wood at uis.edu | <http://www.uis.edu/archives/>


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From: archon-bounces at archon.org [mailto:archon-bounces at archon.org] On
Behalf Of Kyle Fox
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:02 AM
To: Kyle Rimkus
Cc: archon at archon.org
Subject: Re: [Archon-L] Record Groups Identification Question

I'm curious as to how this worked as well. The database fields are
designated as INTs, so even if you edited the php, the database would
still try to reject your letters.

On this subject, though, we're considering relaxing the requirement that
classifications have numbers. No guarantees at the moment, but this
change may appear in a release sometime in the near future.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Kyle Rimkus <kyle.rimkus at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I'm also curious about why that works in your install.  We have a
> non-public install of Archon 2.1, and have noticed the same thing that

> the others on list have commented on.  Namely, the first field in the
> Classification Manager is "Number", and gives an error message when I
> try to add letters.  We would also like to be able to add letters in
> that field at the University of Miami.
>
> Best,
>
> Kyle
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Wood, Thomas J <twood1 at uis.edu>
wrote:
>> In the classification manager, I choose "add new," type in the record

>> group's letter and title and other creator information, and click
"add."
>> That doesn't work?
>>
>>
>> Thomas J Wood
>> Archivist
>> Archives/Special Collections
>> Norris L Brookens Library, Room 144
>> University of Illinois at Springfield One University Plaza, MS BRK
>> 140 Springfield IL 62703-5407 217-206-6520 | wood at uis.edu |
>> <http://www.uis.edu/archives/>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: archon-bounces at archon.org [mailto:archon-bounces at archon.org] On

>> Behalf Of Calvin Fenton
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:40 AM
>> To: archon at archon.org
>> Subject: [Archon-L] Record Groups Identification Question
>>
>> I have just begun to use Archon in our small school archives. I want
>> to enter our record groups but we use letters instead of numbers (AC
>> - Academic Dept.; SU - Superintendent's Office, etc.). In
>> Classification Manager, only numbers are allowed to identify record
>> groups. Is there a work-around that will enable me to use our already
assigned letter classifications?
>>
>>  Thanks.
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>
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