Re: Order record status change macro

[Mieko Yamaguchi <iss053@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabeth makes a good point.  Cancelling a batch of orders seems to
be a good reason for wanting to change the order status on a group of
records.  Perhaps there should be a function to allow cancellation of
a review file of orders similar to batch check-ins in circulation.

The original question was about changing the order status on a group of
records, not just cancelling orders.  There are many different order
status values mostly set by the system and I do not believe the ability
to freely change the order status in batches is desirable.

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Elizabeth Thomsen wrote:

> Mieko is right about posting, but we don't think this is a good reason
> for not being able to change status using rapid or global update.   Like
> others, we create review files of order records that we want to change
> (usually to cancel) and use a script to change status of each one.  Of
> course cancelling orders affects the encumbrance (that's why we're
> usually doing this-- to free up money) and you do need to post to see
> this take affect, but that's true whether you cancel them as a batch or
> individually.
>
> Having an option to use rapid and global update on the status field of
> order records was an enhancement request this year.  In my opinion, this
> is one of those things that the system should do, so we don't all have
> to write scripts and come up with workarounds to do this, or, worse,
> have staff people waste time changing the status of large batches of
> order records individually.

Mieko
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