On 2009/03/27, at 12:08 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:
The functionality required is the ability to collect a batch of barcodes of items that are affected and the ability to change the status of collected barcodes in one action. I looked back at Mason's description and believe that he and WALDO are thinking alike.
I think the key is his description "similar to circ's current branchtransfers.pl script." That means scanning each item individually with the updates happening in individually, rather than collecting barcodes in a batch for processing en masse. Does that sound right Mason?
It may not have a functional difference as far as your requirements go, but I would hope that a "Bulk status change" feature would offer more than one way of building a batch, just like the inventory script gives you the option of choosing a call number range, barcode range, etc. That's just my idea of it though.
hi Folks thanks for the feedback. down the track i can see the potential for the tool to be enhanced with add/mod/saving item-batches to run status-updates on, or uploading a text-file of barcodes, or selecting items using various fields and min/max ranges etc... but yes, at the moment ill keep the 1st draft nice and simple, and focus on it accepting scanned barcodes from Circ (like the branchtransfer.pl tool)