Thesaurus - moving terms between branches

Felipe

@Alex @elena
We have a doubt!
When you move names in the thesaurus, the type does not change. If I have created a thesaurus in "Objeto", the record is created with the type [object1], and I move it to the "Patrimonio Inmueble" thesaurus that has the type [tchi1], the type does not change (remains as object1).
I know that it is important to define things well from the beginning, but if the thesaurus is advanced and a change similar to this one would have to be made, could the type be changed?

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Thank you very much!

Manuel Gozalbes

I think that your proposal sounds simple, but in fact is not, and doesn't fit at all under the Dédalo principles. Dédalo is based on unique and permanent locators for everything, so the consequences of your proposal are extremely complicated. Keep in mind that many records from different sections are using te '...object1...' locator. If you change the locator to '...tchi1...', what happens with the locators stored of other sections linking that record? It's crazy to change that external references (in fact I think it's impossible). Beside this, there is a section ID that is necessary to change if you move the record from one section to another, there a time machine tracking that you need to keep... I think it's not feasible at all to make that kind of change.

Alex

Hi @Felipe

As Manuel say, seems simple but it's not.

The thesaurus «object1» defines a model of data (named section) with his specific «fields» (named components),
And the tchi1 defines other model totally different.

In object1 you will find the field: Term hierarchy25
That is not present in tchi1.
tchi1 has a «similar and compatible» field: Name tchi15 field

So, if you move the object1 records and you want change the section_tipo from object1 to tchi1 you will need to map the «fields» from one model to the new one. Besides, as Manuel said, you will need to change all locators in all other sections that point to this new records. it is possible to do, but is not simple.

Best

Felipe

Understood. Thank you very much for the clarification @Manuel Gozalbes @Alex