Mieko
What you say is exactly what we expected to happen because we do have the
Reserv Note in the Item record and when we tested it at the beginning of
this week it worked. However, as I said yesterday when we inactivated all
the relevant courses we found it hadn't worked!
Thanks for confirming anyway.
At 12:02 PM 28-01-00 +0000, Mieko Yamaguchi wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Sheila Helen Smart wrote:
>
>> We tested making items on courses Inactive before doing it for real and we
>> are sure that the Tot Chkout in the item record went back to what it was
>> before it went on Course Reserve, with the Course Reserves total checkouts
>> being stored in the Reserv Note field. However, what it seems to be doing
>> is adding the Course Reserves checkouts to the Tot Chkout.
>
>If you keep Reserve Notes in the item record the number of checkouts while
>the item was on reserve is added to the old Tot Chkout. If you don't keep
>Reserve Notes the old Tot Chkout number is restored. See the User Manual
>(R12) #29808. This is meant to cater for libraries which regard
>checkouts while the item is on reserve as "aberrations" and those which
>do not.
>
>Mieko
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Sheila Smart
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