Bulk Deleting Authority Records With No Bibliographical Record Pop-Up
Currently, when I create a record set for authority records not connected to a bib record, and then try to delete multiple records, I get a pop-up that asks if I'm sure I want to delete the record even though it is attached to the record set (that I just created). I get this pop-up for EVERY authority record I try to delete, so if I delete 100 records, I will have to see this pop-up 100 times. There is no way around this currently and I'd like it to be fixed. It should be like deleting items in other record sets.
McKenna Leckrone
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Phil Agnew
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I just dealt with this for the first time myself and I think it mostly boils down to the Authority Records not being removed from the Record Set before the "delete" action is passed. Item and Bibliographic Record Sets both appear to remove the record from the set, which I think is why we don't see the same problem there (this also helps prevent unintentional "double delete" actions, but that's another can of worms).
Fortunately, the Remote Desktop App Client (old school Polaris Client) doesn't have the same problem. It appears to remove the Authority Record from the Record Set before processing the "delete" action, just like the Item and Bib Record Sets. So, there's at least a workaround, but I think "fixing" the Authority Record Set "delete" workflow to include the "remove from record set" action in the Leap Client, like the Item and Bib Record Sets, would be a quick fix to this issue.
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Yes please! There have been older versions of this idea, because it has been an issue forever. We should not have to spend hours to mark authorities as deleted.
