Sometimes it is necessary to change borrower details in bulk. Any time you need to do the same thing to lots of borrowers it might be possible to save yourself a lot of time by doing the changes in bulk via Utiltities / Update.

Some examples:-

Changing Group/Class in bulk -

Miss Smith the year 1 teacher gets married on the holidays and her group/class has changed from S01 to P01. 

Steps...

Do a backup (Exclusive backup is not necessary for this purpose so you might like to intentionally leave a module open) / Go into Utilities / Update / Circulation / Borrowers.

Steps...

• Set selection criteria as

Selection field   Group

Low value   S01       High value    S01

• Click the Apply button
• Check the number and details of filtered records displayed and if you're happy set the Replacement criteria as

Replacement field    Group

Replace with    P01    and click the Replace button and then confirm

• Replace if details displayed seem reasonable.

Changing loan limits in bulk -

The librarian has decided that year 4 students can now borrower 3 books instead of 2.  Rather than going through each student and adjusting the limit field manually a bulk change is very handy.

Steps...

• Do a backup (Exclusive backup is not necessary for this purpose so you might like to intentionally leave a module open) / Go into Utilities / Update / Circulation / Borrowers.
• Set selection criteria as

Selection field   Level

Low value   4 (or 04 depending on your data)  High value    4 (or 04)

• Click the Apply button
• Check the number and details of filtered records displayed and if you're happy set the Replacement criteria as

Replacement field    Limit

Replace with    3 

• Click the Replace button and then confirm Replace if details displayed seem reasonable.

Changing Levels in bulk -

It's the start of the school year and you have decided to manually adjust the student details instead of Inload them from a file.  You decide to bulk update the Year

Steps...

• Do a backup (Exclusive backup is not necessary for this purpose so you might like to intentionally leave a module open) / Go into Utilities / Update / Circulation / Borrowers.
• Set selection criteria as

Selection field   Level

Low value   4 (or 04 depending on your data)  High value    4 (or 04)

• Click the Apply button
• Check the number and details of filtered records displayed and if you're happy set the Replacement criteria as

Replacement field    Limit

Replace with    3 

• Click the Replace button and then confirm Replace if details displayed seem reasonable.

Changing Borrower No. to Borrower IDs in bulk -

Unusual but is happens! This is useful if you have all the student enrollment numbers in the Borrower Barcode field but nothing or dodgy details in the Borrower No. field...

REMEMBER:- The Borrower No. field is the one LibCode uses to match data when you bulk inload...

Steps...

• Do a backup (Exclusive backup is not necessary for this purpose so you might like to intentionally leave a module open)
• Call LibCode Office about the BC2BNUM.EXE utility to make this very painless!