{"id":5029,"date":"2026-03-30T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:56:13","slug":"review-historical-data-on-merged-cases-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/modules\/tools\/review-historical-data-on-merged-cases-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"Review historical data on merged cases &amp; entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Lesson #172<\/h6>\n<h5>Tools \u2013 Merge History function<\/h5>\n<p>You can merge certain types of MR data into similar entries in MR9\u2019s database. When you merge a firm\/contact\/location into another one, MR9 records the event. Use this function to find merged entries, when they were merged, and by which staff member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can find all of the contacts, firms, or locations that were merged in any specified time period.<\/strong> Instead of using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omtiblog.com\/reporterbase101\/modules\/tools\/notes-finder\/\">Notes Finder<\/a> to search for the word \u201cmerge\u201d in the Notes Logs of the different entities, this function simplifies the search and the results returned while still giving you easy access to the individual Merge To entry\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<h2>Review merge history<\/h2>\n<p>The default search is for any firms that were merged in the last 30 days. Any merger listed in search results displays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name of the entry that was merged<\/li>\n<li>Name of the entry that was merged into<\/li>\n<li>Who on your staff did the merger<\/li>\n<li>Time and date of the merger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use the search filters to find other mergers. You can search for mergers of several types of data including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact<\/li>\n<li>Firm<\/li>\n<li>Location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to choosing which type of data to find mergers of, you can change the date range from the current month to any date range.<\/p>\n<p>You can sort the list in ascending or descending order of any column by clicking the column\u2019s header. Export the list as an <em>Excel<\/em> spreadsheet or a CSV (comma-separated values) file to save, share, use in other applications, or print as a report.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the information that is displayed in the search results, you can click any listing to view its entire entry in your MR9 database and optionally update its information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR: Review mergers of cases, contacts, firms, and locations for the current month or any date range. Update individual entries\u2019 listings if desired.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>MR9 concepts in this lesson<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Person who works for a firm you do business with \u2014 such as attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, legal assistants, claim adjusters, and court clerks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firm:<\/strong> Business you provide services to \u2014 usually law firms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Place where records are stored \u2014 such as hospitals, schools, doctors\u2019 offices, or businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson #172 Tools \u2013 Merge History function You can merge certain types of MR data into similar entries in MR9\u2019s database. When you merge a firm\/contact\/location into another one, MR9 records the event. Use this function to find merged entries,<a href=\"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/modules\/tools\/review-historical-data-on-merged-cases-entities\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,27],"tags":[270,3,28],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesson","category-tools","tag-merge-history","tag-mr9","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omtiblog.com\/metarecords101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}