How do I merge two entities and retain the existing Results recorded against both entities?

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Issue

Two duplicating entities have been registered and I want to merge them while retaining the Results that are already recorded against the two entities.

 

Environment

Registry, Schemas, Results

 

Cause

Uniqueness constraint was not set up at the time of registration, resulting in two duplicating entities.

 

Resolution steps

1. Set up a uniqueness constraint that causes the two entities to conflict against each other (e.g. two entities have the same bases, field values, etc.)

2. Let the entity that you want to keep be REG and the entity that you want merged into REG be DUP. Unregister and re-register the DUP. This step will lead the DUP to be merged into REG if the uniqueness constraint was set up properly - more information on what to expect here.

3. All the Results recorded against DUP will be transferred to REG.

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However, DUP's entity chips in Results tables will not be redirected to REG.

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Refer to here to read more about which data is transferred/redirected. 

 

 

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