The operations page allows you to perform various administrative tasks on your instance. Some of the operations, such as assigning global identifiers to all records, involve processing of all the records in the repository and they may take a while to complete. Such long-running operations are invoked as background jobs and you can check on their status through the Job Queue page.
Global Identifiers
The first two operations relate to the assignment of global identifiers. A global identifier is an identifier assigned by OpenEMPI to records and records that refer to the same entity have the same global identifier assigned to them. Through this menu you can initiate background jobs to either assign a global identifier to all records in the system or to delete all global identifiers assigned to records.
