[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Buckets

[OdonLibrarian at aol.com]

Hi, Chris.  Finally, some discussion from the client side of things,  
prompting my first post to the list.
 
Re the duplicate records:  One possibility is that you're  not hitting 
refresh enough.  You may think a record hasn't been added  because it's not 
showing and add it again.  Then when the bucket gets  refreshed it's in there 
twice.
 
As to the purpose of buckets:  
Record buckets can be used to collect records that need to be merged or  
deleted or have holdings added.
For a list of items to pull from the shelf, you want to use a copy bucket  
so you have shelving location and call number.  Printing out the list isn't  
difficult.  One of the bucket options is to copy the entire bucket to the  
clipboard.  It is picked up in comma-delimited form and can be pasted into  
a spreadsheet for further manipulation and printing.
 
I use copy buckets for items that need barcodes or spine  labels or some 
special processing.
 
It would be nice to have more batch processing options from the  buckets.  
One option for some batch processing is to save a list of  barcodes (picked 
up from a bucket or report) in CSV form -- no labels, no other  fields, only 
numbers.  They can then be uploaded into the "item status"  window, 
selected as a set, and be modified as a group in the "item attributes"  window.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Marsha
 
 
Marsha  Lynn
Director
Odon Winkelpleck Public Library
202 W. Main St., Odon,  Indiana
812-636-4949 (OdonLibrarian at aol.com)

 
In a message dated 11/24/2009 12:10:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
CCaughey at jessup.edu writes:

We are having a problem with record buckets in version  1.4.0.6.  Items are 
added to the bucket one day, and then there are  duplicates (sometimes 2, 3 
or even 4) in the bucket the next day.  Is  anyone else having this 
problem?  If so, what have you done to fix  it? 
Also (please forgive my ignorance), what is the intended  purpose of 
buckets? 
One of the things we wanted to do with the record bucket  was to print a 
list of books that included call numbers, so that student  workers could pull 
the books for a display.  I cannot seem to find a way  to do that anywhere 
in Evergreen (except maybe in a report). 
Thanks, 
Chris



 
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