Re: [IUG] moving data from item fixed field to variable field

[Yitzchak Schaffer <yitzchas at touro dot edu>]

Of course, the downside of export is that the data is no longer together 
with the record, and you'd have to write a script to associate later.  
So addressing your original question... :) moving data from fixed to 
note, you could write an AutoIt script for Millennium to copy data from 
YTDCIRC to a note with the date range.  It takes a while to run, 
depending on how many items you have, but it would keep the data together.

I tried writing an inventory module for Millennium using AutoIt, and 
gave up after testing it with a number of barcode files when I saw that 
random dialog appearances crash the script too often - now I'm exporting 
data and using PHP and MySQL (I don't know Perl yet) to manipulate it.  
It's working great, and many, many times faster - where feasible, it's 
much more consistent than the AutoIt/Mil combination.

Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
yitzchas at touro dot edu


Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
> Possibly a cleaner solution than note fields, is to export the data 
> and keep it on file outside the III system.  That way, your item 
> records won't get cluttered up, you won't have to worry about 
> inappropriate modification, and you also won't have to deal with how 
> to extract the data from the notes when you want to use it.
>
> Yitzchak Schaffer
> Systems Librarian
> Touro College Libraries
> 33 West 23rd Street
> New York, NY 10010
> Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
> Fax (212) 627-3197
> yitzchas at touro dot edu
>
>
> Tina Herman Buck wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out if we can copy information from an item
> > fixed-length field and paste or roll it into an item variable length-field. 
> >
> >  
> >
> > We're looking at moving our year-to-date-circ into last-year's-circ for the
> > first time, and thinking about how we might track usage (including
> > internal-use) over multiple years. We like the idea of copying the number in
> > the fixed-field to an internal note and then appending the appropriate date
> > range, but I don't see anyway to actually do it.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Has anyone accomplished this?
> >
> >  
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >  
> >
> > Tina Herman Buck
> >
> > Technical Services Librarian 
> >
> > Scarborough-Phillips Library
> >
> > St. Edward's University 
> >
> > 3001 South Congress Ave.
> >
> > Austin, Texas 78704
> >
> > 512-464-8825 (voice)      
> >
> > 512-448-8737 (fax)
> >
> > tinab at stedwards dot edu
> >
> >  
> >
> >
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