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Hi Oliver, in our settings one person has one affiliation (delivered via LDAP) and can set additional affilations by choice. E.g. https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/cris/rp/rp14224. So you enter the author's name in the submission and receive a preview of the entered affiliations, from which you can select one. That fits our needs.
Best Steffen, University of Bamberg (Steffen Illig )

Script Merging Entities

Our use case is: by now we regulary merge Persons (rps), which are created by mistake during the submission or by our ldap. In Dspace-Cris 5.X this could only done by our developers. In DS-CRIS7 CRIS 7 we would like to have a similar function operable via process to enable more colleagues to do this work.

We would like to merge two entities, so that only one entity remains. The remaining one should contain all relationships and metadatafields from the deleted entity without losing its own metadatafields. Additionally the bitstreams, orcid history and subscriptions and other references need to be copied. Some kind of configurable logic should prohibit certain unique metadatafields from being added (e.g. dspace.entity.type, person.identifier.orcid, dspace.object.owner informations etc...) to the remaining entity.

If metadata fields with different languages are set (for instance a title in german and a title in english), the german title will only be displayed, when German is chosen as the language of the User interface. For some use cases this is a very nice feature. But for some metadata fields this could be unwanted (for instance if you have subject headings in different languages, you may want to see all of them at once, independently from the actually chosen language).