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Merge duplicate Artists

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This article shows you how to merge duplicate artist profiles.

In order to do this in your SAM account, you will need full Manager rights.

Notes
  • The first thing you will need to do is find the duplaicate artists in your SAM. Navigate to the artists search and look for double entries.
    Next, you'll need to inspect those profiles and determine which is the duplicate that needs to be merged and which is the main profile.
    The the duplicate/redundent profile will merge into the main profile.
    If the names are exactly the same - you might need to make the name of the redundent profile different. Eg, add the number 2 or X to notify it is the one you don't need. 
  • Merging artists moves all existing Accounts, Artworks, Awards, Bibliographies, Collections, Commissions, all Exhibitions, Languages, Mediums, Themes and Skins from Artist 1 to Artist 2.
    Where Skin, Lanaguage and Medium are the same the Merge will stop, simply remove these from one of your artist(s) before the merge.
    NB: It will NOT copy/merge any other data like DoB, Level, Biography, Address, Country or Phone from Artist 1, only what is in Artist 2 will stay

Step by Step

  1. Now navigate to Admin > Merge Artists
  2. To insert the first artist profile that you don't need, click Merge Artist 1
  3. Start typing the name of the redundant artist and select from the dropdown.
  4. Click Into Artist 2
  5. Start typing the name of the main artist that you want to keep and select from the dropdown.
  6. Click Save.
    *Carefully read the notes on the page to ensure you are inputting the artists in the correct place
  7. Click Yes
  8. That's it. You're done.
 Walk-through tutorial

10 STEPS

1. The first step is to open SAM and navigate to Search Artists to see the artist profiles that you want to merge.

2. Here you can see I have a duplicate of Josie Olbar.
You will need to determine which is the main artist and which one is redundant.

3. Now navigate to Admin > Merge Artists

4. To insert the first artist profile that yo don't need, click Merge Artist 1

5. Start typing the name of the redundant artist and select from the dropdown.

6. Click Into Artist 2

7. Start typing the name of the main artist that you want to keep and select from the dropdown.

8. Click Save.

*Carefully read the notes on the page to ensure you are inputting the artists in the correct place.

9. Click Yes

10. That's it. You're done.

Here's an interactive tutorial

** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **

https://www.iorad.com/player/2449144/Merge-Artist

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