RE: [IUG] Create list strategy - barcodes into review file

[zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org]

Jim,

The good news is that you can accomplish this by inventory. If you have a
Percon scanner, choose the inventory option, scan, transfer file as per
manual using FTS. Choose the compare inventory to shelflist option and there
will be a choice to transfer the barcodes to a review file.

The bad news is that this is in the Innopac character driven part of your
Millennium, the review files are not the same as those on the Millennium
side, and the information in the review file appears to be nothing other
than the barcodes themselves.

BUT:

If you are not currently engaged in an inventory, you can choose another
option off the character menu where you would choose "T> Transfer records to
review file". Choose "C> Compare file of barcodes to shelflist" instead. You
will be prompted to update records processed with the date of inventory as
part of this process. You can then run a search in Millennium's CreateLists
to produce a review file of items with that inventory date. 

I presume your records can come from all over the collection. This is not an
expectation in inventories and I worry the system may balk. If it does (or
you are doing an inventory & are not at liberty to use that variable in the
item record), I can talk you through a work around.

ALSO:

If you do not have a Percon scanner at your disposal, this is not a major
problem. You can open a text editor like the Notepad that ships with
Windows, and scan the barcodes with whatever equipment you have available.
This will require a little extra typing or processing with a simple computer
program. A line of inventory in the Percon scanner has three elements: 1)
"n:" (lower case n followed by colon), 2) the barcode and 3) a hard return
(carriage return / linefeed sequence, or hitting the enter button in
Notepad). No extra spaces! A file of these lines of text will be accepted
through the usual FTS process.

If you don't feel like typing "n:" before a barcode and the enter key
afterward, and you don't know how to make a program to add these in after
the fact, you need to secure the help of a student worker who has had the
100 level Intro to Programming course in a language you have access to in
college or high school. I know you can get C, C++, Pascal and Java at the
very least for free on the internet. Never be caught without a student that
has "occasional programming" written into his/her responsibilities, in free
language that is installed on a computer that the student can use during
normal hours.


Good Luck & let me know how it goes,


Zoltan Tomory
Technical Services Librarian
Missouri Botanical Garden

314.577.5157

zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org



-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell, James (campbejo) [mailto:CAMPBEJO at ucmail dot uc dot edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:46 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: [IUG] Create list strategy - barcodes into review file


You have a truck full of items.  All the items have barcodes.  You want
a review file to reflect those specific items.  Any quick method, by way
of a single swipe of each items barcode to assemble such into a review
file?
thanks
-Jim
 


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