NLM Value Set Authority Center (VSAC). Value Set Authoring. Deleting Selected Codes.
In this tutorial I will demonstrate several ways of how you can delete codes from a value set.
Here is a demo value set. To make any changes to it, first click the Edit button.
In the simplest case, the code you’d like to delete will be visible on the page
in the code list table. To delete this code, check the box against it
and click on the Delete button depicted as a small trash can.
If the code you need to delete is not visible in the table,
you can change the way the table is displayed.
For example, you can display 40 or 60 rows of codes per page instead of the default 20 rows.
You can also scroll through pages using the arrows, or by entering page numbers and hitting Enter.
Finally, you can use these filter boxes to search for a text string contained in the code’s identifier,
descriptor or other metadata. For example, if you want to find a code containing the word “blood”
in its descriptor, you can type that word in the filter box at the top of the Descriptor column
and then hit Enter to narrow down to those codes that match your search criteria.
Now you can select the codes and delete them using the
Delete button as I showed previously.
After making changes to the value set, always remember to save it by clicking the Save button.
Another method of deleting codes worth mentioning is that you could export the value set data
to the Excel spreadsheet using the ‘Export Value Set Details (Excel)’ link.
Clicking on that link will save all the codes and metadata into a spreadsheet.
You can then edit your code list using the spreadsheet software and re-import the codes
using the Import function we described in a separate tutorial.
This concludes our tutorial.
Back on the VSAC home page, you can read more about the VSAC and value set authoring by
reviewing the information on the VSAC Support Center pages.
Click on the Help link at the VSAC home page to access those pages.
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