Orphaned data

The removal of certain data may leave orphaned data as shown in the image below. The removal of a specimen may leave event data without any relation to a specimen. As the access to the data is organized via projects this relation is removed as well. So orphaned data are accessible by anyone. Orphaned data may on the other hand exist due to the preparation of events for upcoming expeditions and the like. Therefore care should be taken when removing orphaned data to not remove preparations of other users. For an overview see a short tutorial Video starten.

Subsections of Orphaned data

Maintenance

Orphaned Event

CollectionEvents & CollectionEventSeries

The removal of orphaned event data is described in the Maintenance capters CollectionEventSeries and CollectionEvent.

 

Maintenance

Unrelated Data

CollectionEvents

Provided you have the proper rights you may remove unlinked data sets in the tables CollectionEvent and CollectionEventSeries. To delete events which are not linked to any data in the database use the tab page [Remove unrelated events]. These unrelated data sets may e.g. be derived from specimens which were transferred to another CollectionEvent. Click on the [List unrelated events] button to list all events which are not related to a specimen. The found CollectionEvents will be listed in the upper part of the form. The lower part shows the localisations and the event properties related to these CollectionEvents. These must be deleted first before you can delete the events related to these data sets. Otherwise only the events with no relations to localisations or properties will be deleted.

 

 

CollectionEventSeries

To delete CollectionEventSeries with no relation to CollectionEvents or other event series choose the tab page [Remove unrelated event series]. Click the [List unrelated event series] to list these series and the [Delete unrelated event series] button to delete them.

 

Maintenance

Orphaned Annotations

Provided you have the proper rights you may remove orphaned data sets in the table Annotation. To delete annotations which are not linked to any data in the database use the tab page Orphaned data - Annotations. These orphaned data sets may e.g. be derived from specimens which were deleted. Click on the List orphaned annotations button to list all annotations and their related tables which are orphaned. The found annotations will be listed in the form. Click on the remove orphaned annotations button to remove the data.

 

 

Maintenance

Orphaned Identifier

As described for the annoations above you can delete orphaned external identifier in the tab Orphaned data - Identifier (see below).

   

Maintenance

Orphaned Relations

As described for the annoations above you can delete orphaned internal relations in the tab Orphaned data - Relation (see below) Video starten.