RE: MillCirc Materials Bookings question

[Sondra Brough <sondra.brough@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Corey, you are exactly right.  While Millennium is good for placing
bookings, there is little or no functionality to date for manipulating them.


-----Original Message-----
From: Seeman, Corey Glenn [mailto:CSeeman@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:02 AM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: MillCirc Materials Bookings question


Lesha -- It appears that you are correct.  The ability to delete or modify
bookings is not possible when viewing this in Milcirc.  For that matter, I
tried in Milcat and it does not work here.  For this type of work, it
appears to have to be done in Telnet (though I have been wrong alot these
days...I still have a better record than the Detroit Tigers!)

>From my discussions with Innovative, this needs to be reported to them as an
"Telnet Does...Millennium Does Not" message rather than an enhancement.  I
can forward this to the proper people at III and they can take it from
there.  

I can see why this would be be a pain and hope that it gets resolved soon.

Best -- Corey

Corey Seeman
(Wearing my Enhancements Co-Coordinator Hat)

Assistant Dean for Resource & Systems Management
Assistant Professor, University Libraries
Carlson Library
Mailstop #509 
University of Toledo
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Toledo, OH 43606

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesha Fossey [mailto:L.Fossey@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:37 AM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: MillCirc Materials Bookings question


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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