Mark a batch of items as missing?
After doing some inventory in our library, I obtained a list of the barcodes of a few dozen lost items. Now I'd like use the batch item modification tool to change the "lost status" for that set of items. But I don't see a way to do that with this tool. Is there another way? I'd like to avoid having to mark the items as missing one by one. I'll resort to SQL if necessary. Thanks in advance!
Hi Mark, check the settings for the subfield in your bibliographic frameworks and make sure it's not hidden. Depending on version, you will also want to check the settings for your MarkLostItemsAsReturned system preference. Hope this helps, Katrin On 26.03.20 11:37, Mark Alexander wrote:
After doing some inventory in our library, I obtained a list of the barcodes of a few dozen lost items. Now I'd like use the batch item modification tool to change the "lost status" for that set of items. But I don't see a way to do that with this tool. Is there another way? I'd like to avoid having to mark the items as missing one by one. I'll resort to SQL if necessary.
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Excerpts from Katrin Fischer's message of 2020-03-26 16:28:05 +0100:
check the settings for the subfield in your bibliographic frameworks and make sure it's not hidden.
Thank you for this hint. It turns out that in the default bibliographic framework in our installation (upgraded to 19.05.04), the 952$1 field (lost status) is hidden. The manual warns against trying to edit the default framework, so I won't change this setting. Unfortunately, when I imported our catalog from Mandarin back in 2017, I wasn't aware of this issue and all of those items seem to be using the default framework. Newer items added that I've added are using the books framework, in which 952$1 is not hidden, so the lost status appears in the item editor.
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