Maintenance Clean Scopes

Maintenance - Clean empty scopes

If you want to find and delete scope entries that do not contain any data, select the Update description scopes tab and choose the tab Clean empty scopes.

Select the Scope type, e.g. “Taxon name” and the Project. Click on Check for empty scopes and all descriptions will be listed where no scope of the specified type is present and source data are available (see image below).

The size of the query result list may be adapted by changing the value Number of results or unchecking this option to get the complete list. You may select or deselect all entries of the result list for the database update by clicking the buttons Select all rsp. Select none. 

If you select the option Include description IDs and start a new query (button Check for empty scopes) the result list will include the column DescriptionID. By selecting an entry and clicking the button Inspect dataset you may directly navigate to that dataset. If you click on button Close form and check list in database , you will return to the main form and find the selected entries in the description result list.

To update the database click on the button.