Hold Pickup Notices Report
This report is on the Circulation tab of reports.
| • | Pipe-delimited Output |
The Hold Pickup Notices (Pickup) report selects holds that are ACTIVE and available, and prints a notice to inform the user that the hold is ready for pickup.
This report contains the following tabs.
| • | Basic Tab: Reports |
| • | Hold Notice Tab |
| • | Hold Selection Tab |
| • | Item Selection Tab |
| • | User Selection Tab |
| • | Print Separate Reports for Each Library Tab |
| • | Produce Mailing Labels Tab |
The text of the notices that are available for printing can be defined by your library.
The title, call number, and copy number are printed for each item in the hold pickup notice. If your library uses the Days for Avail Holds to Expire attribute in the Library policy, the Pickup By date is also listed for each hold.
The report automatically sorts the pickup notices by zip code, then user key, then by pickup library.
When the library address is included in a notice, the address is drawn from the user record with a user ID which matches the User ID attribute of the appropriate Library policy.
If Generate Pipe Delimited Output is selected on the Charge Notice tab, the report creates a pipe-delimited file and places it in the /Rptprint directory with the naming convention of yyyymmdd_internalrptname.pipe. The report log lists the pipe-delimited report file name. This pipe-delimited file can be opened using a third-party application, such as a spreadsheet application.
Sorting selections made within the report are not applied to pipe-delimited files. For example, if you sort the report by zip code, the zip code sort is not applied to the contents of the pipe-delimited file.
The entries listed in the Brief Entries attribute of the User Address Format wizards are used to supply information for the address fields in the pipe-delimited file. The City/State field (if it is used) is evaluated as one field, not as two separate fields for the city and the state. The report will check user records for the fields listed in the Brief Entries attribute and print only the populated fields in the pipe-delimited output.
Pipe-delimited Key File
The pipe-delimited key file defines each field of the pipe-delimited file for a particular notice.
The following pipe-delimited key file defines the fields for a pickup notice for an available hold.
|date|Library|Street|Line|City,State|zip|user name|street|line|city, state|zip|salutation|noticetext|title|author|callnumber|copy|pickup by date|
The following example shows a pipe-delimited key file for a pickup notice for an available hold, and the notice output that is produced from the file.
|Friday, May 12, 2006|Rockerfeller Public Library|
123 Main St.||St Louis, MO|55555|Mary Patron|1234 Fair Oaks Lane|
St Louis, MO|55555|Dear Mary Patron,|”PICKUP NOTICE”
The item you requested is available for pickup from the Library.
Contact the Circulation Desk to check out the item. Thank you. |
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club, by Charles Dickens.
With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton, and illustrations
by John Austen.|Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.|XX(1147.1)|1|5/19/2006|
Friday, May 12, 2006
Rockerfeller Public Library
123 Main St.
St Louis, MO
55555
Mary Patron
1234 Fair Oaks Lane
St Louis, MO
5555
Dear Mary Patron,
”PICKUP NOTICE”
The item you requested is available for pickup from theLibrary. Contact the Circulation Desk to check out theitem.Thank you.
1 The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club, by Charles Dickens. With an
introduction by G.K. Chesterton, and illustrations by John Austen.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
call number:XX(1147.1) copy:1
Pickup by:5/19/2006
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