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Change
Work Performance History
This data function allows you to move the performance history of a composition to another performance history. This is often done when a work gets inadvertently duplicated |
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| DOWNLOAD / INSTALL THE
FUNCTION FILES est. time: 5 min
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The Change Work function consists of a set of files, contained in a self-extracting archive and located at the link below. Click or Right-click the link to download the self-extracting file to your computer desktop or another convenient location. When you double-click the downloaded ChangeWork.exe file, a window will open that will ask the destination of the five files. Use the Browse button to locate the OPAS\PROGRAM folder on your server and click the large Unzip button at the top right of the window. (note that these files go to the "Program" folder and not the Report_Art folder as do reports) OPAS must be restarted on individual computers in order to see the new data function but you do NOT need to restart the server.
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Download these
instructions in PDF format here.
You may occasionally need to move the performance history of one work to a different work in the OPAS database. This is most often done to clean up a database and remove inadvertent duplications of compositions. This example will use the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1. There are 2 instances of the work in this OPAS database. The first (top line) is an incorrect or duplicate entry. The second (highlighted in yellow) is the proper entry. To remove the incorrect version of the Cello Concerto (the top line) you must first move its performance history to the second work. OPAS will not let you delete a work when there is something (such as performances) attached to the work.
1. While on the Perf. Hist. screen shown above, click the Linked Data icon at the top of the OPAS screen (the 'handshake' icon), or press the F11 key on your keyboard. From the resulting pop-up menu, select Date-Works… Clicking the Date Works link will open the OPAS Date Works area to the List screen and load each performance of the work 2.From this list screen click the Function icon (the 'cogged wheel' icon second from the left circled in red above) and choose the function called Change Work. Then click the large Start Function button 3. OPAS will display the work select screen. Choose the Composer at the top and the work to which you wish to transfer the performance history. Then click OK. The highlighted work is the work to which the performance history will be moved.
4. The progress bar will show the movement of the function. When the function is complete, click the Close button to close the function window. OPAS and will then display a 'No Records Found!' message. This is because the original search that brought you to this List screen (all performances of “Concerto for Cello No. 1") is no longer valid since you moved the performances to the “Concerto, Cello, No. 1, OP. 107” work. 5. Press any key or click your mouse, then click the green OK in the lower left-hand corner of the screen to return to the Works area of OPAS. 6. Finally, simply click the green Refresh icon at the top of the Perf. Hist. screen for the composition, and the performance history will be blank. If you look up the second 'version' or instance of the work in the database, the performance history will now be attached to it:
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