Good afternoon,<br><br>If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have a few questions:<br><br><style>Wingdings;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style=""> <font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- </font></font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">First of all, </font></font></span></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I loaded a same sample of 52 item barcodes using MS
Notepad. The load went fine, and the “Date Last Seen” updated to the current
date.</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">- However, all that happens is “Date Last Seen” is
updated. If an item is not on the shelf, the tool does not indicate that an
item is missing. Also, if an item is mishelved but its barcode is scanned, then
the “Date Last Seen” is updated, but the tool does not indicate that the item
is actually mishelved. To do both an inventory and a shelf-reading, I'm assuming it would
be smarter to pull up a listing of items using call number range under “Select
items you want to check” and manually check for items instead of loading a
barcode file. Is this a correct assumption?</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">- What does the item statuses feature do? Every time I
try to limit a search by an item status I get no results. To my mind, this
should limit search results to items of a certain status.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span><br>
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- What do the “Inventory Date” and the “compare barcodes
list to results” features at the bottom third of the page do?</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></p><font size="2"><br>Thanks in advance for any and all advice.<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</font><br clear="all">Darcy Gullacher<br>Head Librarian<br>Rocky Mountain College<br>4039 Brentwood Road N.W.<br>Calgary, AB T2L 1L1<br>Phone: (403) 284-5100 ext. 244<br>Fax: (403) 220-9567<br><a href="http://www.rockymountaincollege.ca" target="_blank">www.rockymountaincollege.ca</a><div style="padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup">
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