Hi all:

Is there a way to have DB/Text for Libraries send me an email notification when serials in our catalog need to be renewed? For example, I have been using the "renewal date" field so I can run a report every month and have it bring up the items that need to be renewed. But I'd rather have DB/Text send me an email so I don't have to remember to run reports!

Please let me know whether this is possible, and how to set it up.

Many thanks,
eboni
The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus, OH

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You could write a menu script similar to the ones displaying Overdue Loans and Overdue Periodicals on the Catalog menu screen in DB/Text for Libraries 6.0 that displays the number of serials that needs to be renewed next to a link which does the necessary search.

You could even have it pop up a message, if you needed a more obvious reminder.

Either would remind you whenever you started DB/TextWorks.

Your local dealer or Inmagic Consulting could help you write such a script, or possibly set up one which would email you.