Hi there – Unfortunately, I’ve been using the wrong property type in my custom template (dc:contributor) for a while now and need to change it to “dc:creator” so my metadata is consistent across templates. Is there a way to migrate my “dc:contributor” data to “dc:creator” through some sort of batch update, or do I need to change each one manually?
You can do this via batch editing. For example, edit your custom template so that it contains both the dc:creator and dc:contributor fields. Then select all the items in the project view that you’d like to edit. Then just drag and drop the value from one field to the other: this will move the value in each selected item.
Note, that the batch editor will display a + sign after the value if the values are not the same across all selected items. Below is an example that illustrates moving different values in three items.
If you hold down the Alt key while dragging and dropping the values, the values will be copied instead of moved.
This worked, thank you!