Recombombulator for nested Collection exporting

[grahamjevon]

Situation

BX allows collection metadata to be exported. This csv export includes a row for the collection metadata itself. It also includes a row for each item (sub-collection or work) directly inside this collection.

Problem

The csv export will not include metadata for anything inside the sub-collections. Example:

• You have a single top level collection, with 100 works organised into 5 sub-collections
• You run an export on the single top level collection
• The export will return 6 rows (1 for the top level collection, and 1 for each of the sub-collections
• The export will not return any of the 100 works inside the sub-collections
• If you want to get an export of the 100 works, you will need to run 5 separate exports (one export for each sub-collection).

Solution

Enable nested exporting so that a collection export drills down to return all data beneath it (whether that be collections in collections, works in collections, works within works, and files within works).