MillCirc Materials Bookings question

[Lesha Fossey <L.Fossey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I HOPE I'm missing something obvious here!

In telnet circ, through the Materials Bookings subsystem you can view bookings 
on an item and cancel bookings from that display. (Often used here if someone 
wants to borrow something from our 5-hour-loan collection and the previous 
person hasn't collected it within the first hour of their booking!)

In Millcirc I can only find the capacity to VIEW bookings for an item (retreive 
record through the Search/Holds button and click on the bookings tab). I can't
find anywhere to cancel them other than viewing them, writing down the name of
the patron with the booking, then going into their patron record (by name), and 
cancelling their booking through their bookings tab. Surely this isn't the only 
way to cancel a booking without the patron in front of you? What if you need to 
cancel several bookings on the same item. Would you need to do them individually 
like this?!

Please let me know if there is another, easier way of doing this which I've
missed! Either a screen/option I haven't found, or a setting I can change
somewhere. I see the manual mentions a Materials Bookings authorisation 130. 
This does not show in our list of authorised functions. If you CAN cancel 
bookings from the Search/Holds Bookingsdisplay, perhaps you could also tell me 
if your system has function 130 set up? (Mind you it says without this function 
authorised you won't even be able to cancel bookings through the patron record, 
and we can, so the manual's not altogether correct.....)

Yours hopefully...........

Lesha

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Lesha Fossey  MA MCLIP      
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