Tip for: 04.27.15
Do you have patrons graduating from your library but moving on to another in your district? When you remove those patrons from your database, their fines are removed as well. There is a way to make sure the fines follow the student!
There is an export that lets you export your patron fine information in a .txt, Tab-Delimited file. This file can then be imported into Alexandria, or into most databases or spreadsheets.
If you have advanced your patron grades, and now have a group of patrons in the grade Graduated, or whatever is in your Last Grade field, you can easily export the fines for this grade.
To export the fines of Graduated patrons in Alexandria Version 7:
To export the fines of Graduated patrons in Alexandria Version 6:
Open Operation Management to save the export file. If necessary, you could open the export in a spreadsheet and enter additional information.
NOTE: If your patron barcodes in Alexandria are not the Student numbers assigned in the SIS, then instead of importing the file, the other librarian may need to manually enter the fines for these patrons.