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Comment: clarified behaviour of adding new items using CSV batch edit in the UI

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New metadata-only items can be added to DSpace using the batch metadata importer. To do this, enter a plus sign '+' in the first 'id' column. The importer will then treat this as a new item. If you are using the command line importer, you will need to use the -e flag to specify the user email address or id of the user that is registered as submitting the items. When a

If you are using the web user interface for adding metadata-only item is added to DSpace, the workflow that is active at the moment is bypassed and the item will immediately appear in the recently added sectionitems, any activated collection workflow steps are effectively bypassed. As a result, these added items are immediately archived into the repository.

Deleting Metadata

It is possible to perform metadata deletes across the board of certain metadata fields from an exported file. For example, let's say you have used keywords (dc.subject) that need to be removed en masse. You would leave the column (dc.subject) intact, but remove the data in the corresponding rows.

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