Topic: cascading source document entries
There has long been a problem with the addition of related documents to Recorder occurrence records:
1) If a record is added via the single entry form in Recorder, the Source Document is attached to the SAMPLE
2) If a record is imported via a spreadsheet or text file, the Source Document is attached to the TAXON_OCCURRENCE
3) I don't know where the Recording Forms put their data relating to literary references
In Recorder there appears to be no link between the Document stored in the Sample and the child Taxon Occurrences hence to find all the records attached to a document, it is necessary to run two searches one against the Sample and one against Taxon Occurrence
Would it be possible to either
1) build a link so if a document is linked to the Sample, then all child occurrences refer to it automatically; or
2) make the import and direct entry behave in the same manner, so both put the literary reference in the same table (obviously for historical data there will need to be a batch file to move all the references to the same table)
Craig
Staffordshire Ecological Record