Re: MillCirc Materials Bookings question

[Alison Masterpasqua <amaster1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think there are a lot of libraries that would like to know the answer to 
these questions.  Please respond to the list.

At 12:36 PM 9/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>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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