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

["Hahn, Harvey" <hhahn at ahml dot info>]

Tina Herman Buck wrote:
|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?

Take a look in the list archives for my May 16, 2007, post titled
"Temporarily changing item LOCATION and ITYPE codes".  The AutoIt
scripts referred to there perform an action similar to what you're
asking, only with different fields.  Hope this helps a bit!

Harvey
 
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