Abstract & revision notes

Edit Authority Records

Abstract

Editing basics, including inserting diacritics, editing modes and privileges, and default keystroke shortcuts for editing and for inserting diacritics.

Revision history

Last updated: August 2007

Revision History
Date Section title Description of changes
June 2007 1 Edit authority records
  • Revised for new submenu called Cut Copy Paste on the Edit menu that contains most existing basic editing commands
  • Added new command available only on the right-click editing menu for inserting Unicode Formatting Control Characters for managing correct display of bidirectional data in Arabic and Hebrew script records
  • Added new bibliographic institution record and list type to types of records and lists that remain open simultaneously without "pinning"
  3 Validate records
  • Minimum level of validation for Holdings actions on bibliographic records is called Structure (replaces "None" option)
  • Validation options (Tools > Options > General; click Validation Level Options) apply only to automatic validation performed by the system when you take certain final actions on records
  • Edited procedure for setting validation options (which now also include separate options for bibliographic institution records)
  6 Insert diacritics Added a section at the end about using RLIN21 Latin keyboard as an alternative to the client Edit > Enter Diacritics function.
  7 Default keystroke shortcuts for diacritics Added a section at the end about possible conflicts between default client keystroke shortcuts and keystroke shortcuts used with the installed RLIN21 Latin keyboard
August 2007 Throughout Added minimum authorization level required to specific editing procedures, as appropriate
  8 Authorization levels and cataloging capabilities

Revised to:

  • Clarify authorized actions on records by levels of authorization
  • Clarify any differences in authorized actions between the client
    and browser interfaces

Formerly titled “Editing modes and privileges”

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