Most Circulation commands and operations are designed to modify individual pieces of data one entry at a time; utilities, however, can change large amounts of information in your database at once. They allow you to modify, clear, or clean required information, such as records of interest, title/copy policies, patron histories, and all types of circulation transactions. Using our templates, you can build utilities that modify, transfer, remove, update, or verify the information you require. Quick utilities are meant to be run once and then the settings are discarded. Create a saved utility if you intend to run that particular utility again, then you won't need to adjust the settings next time. Saved utilities can also be set to run on a schedule and a confirmation can be automatically emailed to the recipient(s) of your choice. Take some time to explore the categories and subcategories and set up some Saved utilities for which you'll be able to easily access and run in the future.
Utilities change large amounts of information in your database at once. Be absolutely positive that you want to perform the selected utility before clicking Run. Once these operations have been performed, they cannot be undone. If a utility is run incorrectly, your only recourse is to restore from a daily Archive. Before running a utility, you should run a report with the same selection criteria to see which data would be changed with the utility. |
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