[Wactclc-alma] [External] Bulk Change Due Date

McGaughey, Colleen Colleen.McGaughey at cptc.edu
Tue Apr 14 09:29:24 PDT 2020


Hello everyone,

I wasn't planning on deleting any user groups. I was just wondering why there are SO many user groups with the same names. I was not the person responsible for creating the various user groups. It is difficult to know which group to select when trying to make changes, such as bulk due date change, when you don't know which user groups are active and which one are obsolete.

Colleen

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I recommend that you *don't* delete user groups!!!  There may be historical circulation data in Alma Analytics for those user groups.



What I've been doing is putting "(OBSOLETE)" as the first word in the Description field for any user group or location that we stop using,  This way the label is still there for Alma Analytics reports, but staff inside Alma can see that they shouldn't use that user group or location any more.





It will be ok!



Kirsti S. Thomas

Library Technical Service Manager

Seattle Colleges

kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu





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That pulldown shows the user group description, rather than the user group code. Codes have to be unique, by descriptions do not.



If you want to clean this up, go to Alma Admin / User Management / User Groups, and delete the user groups you don’t need or want, and edit the descriptions on the others to make them match the user group codes.









Wade Guidry

WACTCLC

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Thanks Wade! I appreciate your assistance.



I was able to update the due date to 6/18/2020 on 61 items.



I do have another issue that I have encountered. I noticed a lot of entries for the same user group in the drop down menu. Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to clean this up?



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Thanks again for your assistance.



Colleen McGaughey

Clover Park Technical College





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Two suggestions:



  1.  If you're updating *all* the due dates to the same exact date, no matter whether the patron is student, faculty, or staff, you can leave the "User Group" field blank.  Leaving the "User Group" field blank will change the due date for all patrons.
  2.  Set the "To Due Date" to be "06/29/2020."  That will catch anything that has a due date anywhere between March 20 and the end of your Spring Quarter.



Hope this helps!



Kirsti S. Thomas

Library Technical Service Manager

Seattle Colleges

kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>







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Hello all,



I am also experiencing issues when trying to do a Bulk Due Date change. Our IT dept just recently resolved the issue with the student and staff expiry date. When I try to run the changes, I have 0 results. I am wondering if I need to change how I have entered the fields. I am leaving some fields blank (i.e. Material Type), so that it will capture everything. Since I know that expiry date isn't the issue, could someone please tell me what other issues I may be having?



Thanks!

Colleen McGaughey

Clover Park Technical College



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I ran into a similar issue. Check patron expiry dates, if the due date extends past the expiry date, it throws an error.



John Mullen



On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:44 PM Herman, Amy <aherman at olympic.edu<mailto:aherman at olympic.edu>> wrote:

Do your library calendars extend out to 6/30?  Maybe you need to make the HH:MM on 6/30 the same time that the calendar shows the library closing that day?



Amy Herman

Olympic College

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Hi All,



I am trying to update our due dates, so they are all due at the end of our spring quarter, which is June 30th. I keep getting errors. Any ideas on why this may be happening?



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I keep getting this error message:



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Thank you in advance for your help.



Traci






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