Forums

Books that help, and books that don't

Share your views on the books that help TDN members, and maybe flag up some of the ones that don't.

Comment on the books we're reading, and tell us about those on your bookshelves.

Welcome

Welcome to this evolving community space, and to these forums.

The whole notion of 'Library 2.0' is one in which librarians, library members, developers, software companies and other third parties are able to work together, and to build rich and innovative new services which orchestrate value from a range of previously separate (and often closed) silos of data.

We discuss some of these ideas in our recent 'Library 2.0: the challenge of disruptive innovation' (PDF) and in our other white papers.

Adding a new collection to Prism 3

Can anyone point me in the right direction for adding new collections in Prism 3?

Scheduling reports

If I schedule a report to be saved in the original file location, the filename changes once it has run (and CMC shows it ran successfully), but there is no data. The data from any previous instance was purged before I started. 'Refresh'just seems to run it again.

Half hourly Statistics

Has anyone any advice on how to create half hourly issue statistics? I've managed to break it down into hours fairly easily but would like to break it down either further into half hourly timeslots, such as 09.00-09.29, 09.30-9.59, 10.00-10.29 etc.
Thanks

Sending reservations lists by email

We are trying to automate the process of emailing the output from res_itm_noloan to the various libraries. In order to do this, we need to have the email address of each site appearing on the list in the output from this script.

We have added the following to retrieve.pl for res_itm_noloan:

($LocationEmailAddress) = &sql($d, "
select E_MAIL_NO
from LOCATION_ADDRESS
where LOCATION_ID = '$active_site_id'
") ;

Borrower Anonymiser - Updating the Item status

We have revised our run of Borrower Anonymiser (Nony) to include borrowers with loans. However I have noticed that Nony does not quite go far enough in that it does not change the status of the items that it discharges. Therefore stock that we are never going to get back are still listed as being in stock. What I would like to be able to do is strip just the item barcodes from the Nony report file and import this into a script so that I can change the item status. Any ideas on how to do this would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

Rach
Rachel Underwood
Northamptonshire Libraries

Retrieving Bib information from list of barcodes

I have a list of 20,000+ barcodes and need the bibliographic information related to each one.

Does anyone know if this is this possible via Decisions or another script?

Thanks in advance

Jamie

Retrieving Bib information from list of barcodes

I have a list of 20,000+ barcodes and need the bibliographic information related to each one.

Does anyone know if this is this possible via Decisions or another script?

Thanks in advance

Jamie

Invoice Charges

From the Orders universe, I am trying to get at invoice totals and invoice charge totals, broken down by expenditure code.

At the moment, from the Orders Universe, I have:
Suppliers-Supplier Name

Invoices-Invoice Date, Invoice Number

Fund Accounting-Expenditure Code(base)

Invoices-Item net(base currency)

Is there any way I can pull in totals for invoice charges (i.e. amount paid) (as seen on the 'Invoice Charges' tab on the Alto invoice screen).

I can't seem to see this anywhere in the orders universe, but it may be possible by freehand SQL?

Thanks
Mark

Syndicate content