RE: [IUG] inventory report

[Steve Sowder <sowder at andrews dot edu>]

Check the archives. You will find other methods of doing inventory 
without the "giant reports".


Steve
sowder at andrews dot edu


On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org wrote:

> Sian, 
> 
> Thanks, it is nice to know I'm not the only one. If I should wind up writing
> some custom programs to streamline the reports, I'll try to remember you.
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sian Brannon [mailto:Sian dot Brannon at cityofdenton dot com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:24 PM
> To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: RE: [IUG] inventory report
> 
> We have just completed our 4th or 5th inventory and all of the reports have
> been crazy.  We list the errors only, and not items that are checked out,
> but we still get giant reports with tons of "MSH" messages and duplicates!
> 
> I, too, wish I knew how to streamline it a bit.
> 
> 
> Sian Brannon
> Librarian III, North Branch
> 3020 North Locust
> Denton, TX  76209
> sian dot brannon at cityofdenton dot com 
> 
> 
> Previous message:
> While experimenting with inventory technology I discovered that our
> inventory report was confusing. I scanned 25 volumes and got back a report
> with upwards of 80 lines. A few of these were checked out or misshelved.
> Many barcodes had a two lines on the report. On the whole, this is not the
> way things looked in the documentation, where the example seemed to make
> sense.
> 
> Is it just me, or is my experience typical?
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Zoltan Tomory
> zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org 
> 
> 
> 
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