In the beginning ...

[Zoltan Tomory <zoltan.tomory@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: In the beginning ...

... a void was on the face of the workforms. The poor shmoe assigned with making sense of it saw it, and it was not good.

I hope I haven't insulted anybody, and I definitely do not mean to compare myself with the almighty, but I have been getting more and more frustrated going through the "Getting started manual", especially portions devoted to preparation for dataload.

Presently I'm driving an epixtech Horizon rig and am fairly familiar with the organization of the tables containing my data. I had hoped to map data from my present data structures to their new homes under the iii model, and maybe print out some samples in formats specified by iii.

After some successes with bib and item data (at least in the plotting), I got stuck in the order and checkin tables.

**In checkin I have trouble finding some of the "field group tag" meanings--in particular p,v,q and z.
  It does not appear to be in the table mating the variable name to a meaning (for variable length fields
  only, fixed fields having more descriptive fieldnames)

**In the ORDER3 table everything has a descriptive style fieldname, but the variable names were so
  cryptic that I couldn't make sense of them.

Can anyone offer some practical advice?

thanks,

Zoltan Tomory
Technical Services Librarian
Missouri Botanical Garden

zoltan.tomory@xxxxxxxxxx
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