Re: Maintaining YTDCIRC/LYRCIRC fields

[VICTORIA GREENE <vg0001@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Meiko, this enhancement caught me by surprise.  And what a terrific
surprise it was!  I got through our records in a flash this year compared
to last year.  And the new warnings are great.
Vicki

Victoria W. Greene
Mgr, Automated Systems
Wicomico County Free Library
Salisbury MD


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Mieko Yamaguchi wrote:

> I've just updated the YTDCIRC and LYRCIRC fields in item records at the
> end of our fiscal year and am very impressed by the speed and the very
> helpful prompts.  I have run this program every year ever since it first
> became available and the process used to take a very long time.  I created
> several review files of item records where YTDCIRC>0 or LYRCIRC>0 and
> started several Rapid Update sessions before I left for home in the
> evening.  Once or twice the whole process took more than 24 hours.
>
> I knew that an enhancement has made the process much faster but I had
> not realized how fast it is now!  Because our systems people are upgrading
> the network in our part of the campus this evening I had to come home to
> run this program.  Before I had a chance to decide when to disconnect the
> dial-up connection the whole process was over!
>
> I also liked the very reassuring prompts before going ahead with rapid
> updates asking me to confirm that the settings I chose were correct.
> Each time you try to rapid update item records INNOPAC asks if you want
> to maintain YTDCIRC and LYRCIRC fields and I thought it was too easy for
> anyone to answer yes by mistake, but there are several more questions you
> have to answer before these fields are actually updated and it would be
> very difficult for anyone to get that far accidentally.
>
> Mieko
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