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Michael Doran
Systems Librarian
Where the marked item data originates
If “marking” items doesn’t update Voyager, what’s the purpose?
Saves you from having to jot down notes with a pencil and paper
The “marked items” data can be leveraged for batch updating of Voyager
Can also be leveraged in the canned reports Access file
ShelfLister “Marked Item” values are a configuration option. They can be anything that is appropriate for the project at hand.
Voyager server -
(S)FTP file from Voyager server
…using the FTP/SFTP client of your choice
ASCII
A ShelfLister marked items file
… is a pipe-delimited (“|”) flat file
It’s still a flat file, but now it’s in Access
Access makes it easier to “slice and dice” the data
An example…
You can do the equivalent of all those Access steps with
one UNIX command…
What is this “Pick and Scan”
thing?”
It’s in the documentation
.
142 (for example) items batch updated…
I wanted the titles and authors and...
This table just has a bunch of ID numbers.
If we import the Marked Item file into the Voyager ‘reports.mdb’ canned reports Access file…
We can join that table with other tables in a query…
…to get any additional data
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