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The details of a harvested thesis cannot be changed

What to do when the fields of a thesis harvested from the institutional repository are locked in the record form or saving is refused, by correcting it in the repository and using the fields the panel can change.

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The original of a thesis harvested from the institutional repository is in the repository, so the fields that come from there are locked in the record form. The note at the top of the form says the thesis came from the repository and when the repository last listed it.

Correcting a detail

  1. Open the thesis's record in the repository with the Open the archive's record link at the top of the form.
  2. Correct the mistake in the repository's record, or have the repository's administrator correct it.
  3. If you want the correction at once, press Sync now on the Catalogue → Thesis harvest screen.

If you do not press the button, the correction comes with the next night's sync.

What the panel can change

You can change these settings of a harvested thesis in the panel.

  • The thesis's categories
  • Whether the thesis is featured on the home page, and its place there
  • The thesis's relations to other records

These settings do not come from the repository, and the sync leaves them alone. The thesis's files come from the repository and cannot be changed in the panel. An earlier version of the thesis cannot be restored either.

Keeping a thesis off the site

If you do not want a thesis on the site, unpublish it from its record form. The thesis harvest does not publish again a thesis an editor unpublished. If the thesis must also leave the repository, contact the repository's administrator.

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