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Customized Multilis Reports

AVISBIL1.CMD , AVISBIL2.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Customized version of auxiliary reports resulting from the Batch Updating-Overdues procedure. This list of overdue notices generated as well as the list of items that now have the "missing/overdue" status include additional information such as patron name, Social Security Number and the patron's user category number. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
BARCODE2CHAR.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Customized version of the BARCODE report. This version allows for the selection of items based on the first two characters of the shelf number, rather than just one (as in the standard version of the report). A narrower, more specific selection of a library's classification can be made with this report. (Dave Ritchie - SUNY Cortland)
CIRCSTATS.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Customized version of the STALPHA report. This report produces circulation statistics sorted by call number for a specified user category range. The prompts for user barcode numbers have been removed. (Diane Johnson - SUNY Geneseo)
DOCTYPE.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Multilis report file customized at Finger Lakes Community College used to generate a list of Document Types (and number of bib. records for each). (Andrea Weas - Finger Lakes Community College)
DUPESSN.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) This Multilis report looks through the User file for duplicate Social Security numbers. Information for these records is sent to the output file so as to be able to evaluate potentially duplicate user records. (Dave Ritchie - SUNY Cortland)
EXPIRED_USERS.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Report file that generates a list of expired Multilis user records. User parameters include user category range and date of expiration. Resulting output file can be renamed LISDOCLD.IN and used as input to the lisdocld program to delete the user records. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
LRCFINES.CMD , LRCOVER.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Multilis report files created at SUNY Cobleskill to be used for calculating total fines and fees owed by library patrons. (Donna Kropp - SUNY Cobleskill)
MAILER.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) This is a modified version of an Overdue Notice Production Report. The resulting output file has the delinquent patron's name and address moved 5 spaces over to the right
NO_COLLCODE.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Report listing linked records with items that do not include a specific collection code. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
NOCOTE.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) A custom report prepared by multiLIS which scans and lists any item that does not have a call number. (Suggested to multiLIS by Nancy VanDeusen -SUNY Cobleskill)
PATRON.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) This customized multiLIS report file is used by Cayuga for extracting data for the maintenance of student record databases. Report produces a listing of multiLIS user numbers and associated social security numbers for user records modified within a specified time period. (Greg Szczepanski - Cayuga County Community College)
PATRONOUT.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) A script for the extraction of data for the LAIP/BANNER Interface. Distributed with the LAIP/BANNER software through the Buffalo Common Support Center, this file serves as a template an can be modified to extract any other patron information that may be desirable.
RECORDNUM.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Customized MultiLIS report file that can be used to determine a MultiLIS bibliographic record number. This can be useful when the record is inaccessible (as a result of a bug in the serials control module, for instance), but the record number is needed to fix the problem. Edit the report to fit your needs, run the report, access the record's publication pattern by record number, and fix the record. (John Schumacher - SLSC)
STAFF_DATES.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Customized multiLIS report file that lists the user number and expiration date of selected staff user records. Information can be used in preparation for the upgrade to version 10.9 of multiLIS. Prior to the upgrade, the expiration dates on staff user records should be updated. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
TXTMED.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) List of items (with shelf number and title information) sorted by document type. Customized report derived from the "Cotinven" list. (Carole Gambrell - Suffolk County Community College)
TRUNCATED.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) This report can list records that potentially have had their 505 tags truncated during loading. The report lists records with 505 tags that are 1024 characters long. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
USERLOANS.CMD: (This report file is stored with a .TXT extension to allow viewing by all Web browsers. Please save it with a .CMD extension before you use it.) Bibliography of Items Currently Loaned to User(s) This report can be used to obtain a list of items currently signed out to a patron or to a range of user numbers. Complete bibliographic information is included in the output. You may want to tailor this report to your own needs.

Assorted Procedures and Utilities

Automated Interlibrary Loan Request: Text files and DCL (Digital Command Language) Request command procedure developed at SUNY Morrisville for online submission of interlibrary loan requests.(Bill Drew - SUNY Morrisville)
Automatic Web Page of New Acquisitions: This file includes a Multilis report used to generate a list of new acquisitions. The output file from the report includes HTML. Some "how-to" instructions are included to help set this up so that it runs automatically and updates a Web page of new acquisitions on a regular basis. (Bill Drew - SUNY Morrisville)
Automatic Web Page of Serials Titles: Comparable to item described above: file includes a Multilis report to generate a list of serials and newspapers. The report output file includes HTML coding. Also included in this file are VMS command procedures used to run the report and update the appropriate Web page on a weekly basis. (Bill Drew - SUNY Morrisville)
Cluster 2 Reports Management: Cluster 2 report production procedures as well as tips for troubleshooting from Cluster 2 Reports Coordinator (Andrea Weas - Finger Lakes Community College).
STARTUP.M: Customized Multilis Startup Menu used by Geneseo's multiLIS "front end". See reference in LIBLOAN.COM description. (SUNY - Geneseo Thanks also to multiLIS, Carey Hatch and the SLSC)
HTML Script for FirstSearch Access: HTML coding and directions for setting up secure access to OCLC's FirstSearch via the WWW. (Bill Drew - SUNY Morrisville)
Implementing Overdue procedures: Provides for implementing overdue Notices notice production, specifically using the 8 1/2" X 11" standard form. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
Interlibrary Loan Command Procedure: DCL (Digital Command Language) command procedure used by Geneseo for online submission of interlibrary loan requests. This file must be renamed to LIBLOAN.COM to use. (Sue Chichester - SUNY Geneseo)
Procedures for Linking: Step-by-step work procedures used by Geneseo Items library staff linking item records to bibliographic records. (Andrea Weas - SUNY Geneseo)
Procomm Function Key Mapping: Procomm Plus key-mapping file for use of multiLIS via a PC-keyboard. This file also contains a template for use with the key-mapping and additional helpful information. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
Reserve Collection Work Procedures: Procedures used at Alfred for defining reserve items (temporary location, temporary circulation category and reserve definitions).(Ellen Ehrig - Alfred Tech)
Running Reports Automatically from Command Procedures: Useful and detailed information and examples of using command procedures to have MultiLISreport output automatically produced. (Natalie Sturr - SUNY Oswego)
Setting up a Captive OPAC Account: Procedures developed by Greg Szczepanski for Cayuga and recommended for making a terminal a captive, auto-login OPAC unit. (Greg Szczepanski - Cayuga County Community College)
Various_Com_Procedures: This file includes a series of command procedure files (.com) used to move to various MultiLIS directories, to change the vms prompt and delete working report files. (Bill Drew - SUNY Morrisville)