RE: massive and automatic change on patrons?

["Strouse, Mary" <STROUSE@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In case the patron updating mechanism doesn't meet your needs, I wanted to mention that global update, which is accessed through Millennium Cataloging, isn't just for catalog records.  You can use global update to add or change all or part of a variable field, and do other pretty sophisticated maintenance task, against a file of any record type, including patron or course.  

Mary

Mary M. Strouse
Head of Technical Services
Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
(202) 319-5547   strouse@xxxxxxxxxx
http://law.cua.edu/library/

   

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Doug Kariel
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 2:21 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: massive and automatic change on patrons?


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?
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> Dear Friends
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> 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.
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> I have a plain file with the univ_id, originated from other system.
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> Does somebody know an automatic way to made it, using expect, perl o
> whatever?
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> My regards
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> ___________________
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> Luis A. Gonzalez
>
> Universidad de los Andes
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> Ph: (56-2) 4129.412
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Athabasca University Library		Fax:   (780) 675-6477
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