RE: Delimited export of View Outstanding Requests

["Workman, Clay" <clay_workman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Two suggestions for you to try:

1.  From the File menu, choose Select Printer and then Standard Printer.
    Select Local Printer and change the printer to Generic/Text Only (this
assumes you have a generic printer installed)
    Click in the box labeled "Print to file" and then OK.
    Click on the Millennium Print icon, and you should be asked to enter a
file name.

We are running Phase 2 with XP PC's.  This was working great for us up until
recently; now the client stalls and I have to kill it.  Help Desk is still
working on it; my theory is that the file got too large, because nothing has
changed other than the number of outstanding holds (we are averaging around
4,000).

If this happens to you, or if you don't already have a generic/text only
printer installed, a good workaround is:

2.  From the File menu, choose Select Printer and then Standard Printer.
    Select Send to email address, and send the file to yourself.
    Copy the entire message, paste it into Excel (hope that's what you're
using), and use the Text to Columns function to parse it into a good format.
This works easily for me and gets me the file I need.

Hope it helps.

Clay Workman
Catalog Services Coordinator
Tempe (Arizona) Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: "Susan F Saul" <ssaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <innopac@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Susan Saul" <ssaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Delimited export of View Outstanding Requests?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:14:36 -0400
Reply-To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx

Is there a way to output the results of a Millennium Circulation "View
Outstanding Holds" as a delimited file that can be manipulated in a
spreadsheet?

If not in Millennium, is there a way to do so in the character-based
version?

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Susan F. Saul
Head, User Services
Minuteman Library Network
(508) 655-8008 x226
ssaul@xxxxxxxxxx