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Error opening Controlled Vocabulary file

Symptom
  • Unable to verify terms of a Controlled Vocabulary. Error "Error opening authority file" or "Error opening vocabulary file." in CONTENTdm Administration Server portal.
Applies to
  • CONTENTdm 
  • Controlled Vocabularies Terms
Resolution

Please contact OCLC Support with a screenshot of the error, the collection alias and the field property that you are unable to open.

OCLC will need to verify the Vocabulary list for corruption. If you were doing any work prior to the error, please include that information.

Page ID
18572