Re: massive and automatic change on patrons?

["Alma E. Garcia" <almag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis:

Does the text file you get have any other information that needs to be
loaded into your system?  We load the student information from the campus
 Banner system and update our records each semester.  This way we know if
the student have returned for the new semester or not.



Alma Garcia
Library System Administrator
almag@xxxxxxxxxx
(510)430-2021

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Doug Kariel wrote:

> Hi Luis,
>
> Have you tried doing this using create lists and then updating patron
> records under patron maintenance?  This works quite well.  It depends on
> how large a review file that you have available, but you can break it
> down.  I'd suggest you use the system to do this if possible.
>
> Cheers and Happy New Year to everyone.
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Luis Armando Gonzalez wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:08:30 -0300
> > From: Luis Armando Gonzalez <lagc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> > To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: massive and automatic change on patrons?
> >
> > Dear Friends
> >
> >
> >
> > I need to update to almost all my patrons (some thousands), who are students
> > that renewed, their academic status to current for the New Year, only that I
> > need is change their exp_date to 12/31/2004.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a plain file with the univ_id, originated from other system.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does somebody know an automatic way to made it, using expect, perl o
> > whatever?
> >
> >
> >
> > My regards
> >
> > ___________________
> >
> > Luis A. Gonzalez
> >
> > Universidad de los Andes
> >
> > Ph: (56-2) 4129.412
> >
> >
> >
> >
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