Attribute Update Policy - amsalama/dcm4chee-arc-light GitHub Wiki

Below values and their descriptions indicate the behaviour of update policy for already extracted attributes (into the DB), applicable

• On receive of subsequent DICOM objects of existing Series/Study/Patient. Related configuration Attribute Update Policy on respective Attribute Filters for each of the specified Series / Study / Patient Attribute Entity
• On receive of further updates of existing modality worklist items or modality performed procedure steps or unified worklist items. Related configuration Attribute Update Policy on respective Attribute Filters for MWL / MPPS / UPS
• On receive of Link Instances with MWL entry service requests triggered by REST clients or archive UI. Effective on configuration of Link MWL Entry Update Policy.
• On receive of Copy Instances to Study or Move Instances to Study service requests triggered by REST clients or archive UI. Effective on configuration of Copy Move Update Policy.

Enumerated values :

• SUPPLEMENT : The attributes will be overwritten. Any extra attributes with not null values will be added.

• MERGE : The attributes will be overwritten. Any attributes with not null values, shall not be overwritten by attributes with null values.

• OVERWRITE : The attributes will be overwritten. Any attributes with not null values, shall be overwritten by attributes with null values.

• REPLACE : The attributes will be completely overwritten.

• PRESERVE : The attributes will be preserved. Any extra attributes will be nullified.