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WillScott
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| 07-04-2009 9:40 AM |
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I would like to know if any other EMu users see a need for a feature in EMu's Relocate Tool that would provide the ability to automatically return objects to their permanent locations. I am presently working with an ARGUS conversion client moving to EMu. Users had relied heavily on that feature in ARGUS; and the museum uses permanent locations consistently.
The idea would be that users could select "return objects to their permanent locations" in the Relocate Tool, then be given a list of the objects' Permanent locations to make any ad-hoc changes (accounting for exceptions in the list--perhaps, one object went to Conservation).
Would that be useful to you other EMu users?
Thanks!
Will
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Mark Bradley
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| 13-05-2009 5:09 PM |
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Hi Will
We don't use Permanent Location much at all here at the NGA. Storage space is at a premium, and available space tends to be fairly quickly filled.
If we did use Permanent Location I would very much support your suggestion.
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David Smith
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| 13-05-2009 6:04 PM |
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Great suggestion, Will,
I think this would be a really useful facility and would certainly save some time.
We fairly regularly get large numbers of specimens out for demonstrations as part of an undergraduate teaching course. Relocating a large number of specimens to a single location is easy, but then recording that they have been returned to the drawers again is quite tedious, particularly when they come from different areas of the collection.
A tool to be able to 'return to permanent postion' would be immensely useful. It could either work as a copy function, thereby copying the value in the permanent location into the current location field. Or it could in some way employ the audit 'roll-back' facility coming with version 3.2.05.
cheers
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Scott Williams
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| 03-07-2009 4:02 AM |
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It looks like this feature was requested way back in 2002 by Will Real. Does anyone know if it was implemented for them?
http://www.emuusers.org/Forums/tabid/57/view/topic/forumid/13/postid/108/Default.aspx
Taken from previous post:
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1. We envisioned a quick way to return a group of objects to
their permanent locations in one move. For example, you could bring up a
group of 50 or so records of objects that have just been in an exhibition in
Gallery 2. Their current location is Gallery 2, and their Permanent
Locations are various (Print Room Cabinet 5 Box 10, and so on--in our case
there could be dozens of unique Permanent Locations for even a small show of
50 items). You could issue a command (click a button, or whatever) that says
"Return Selected Objects to Permanent Location". KE would then carry out the
requested location change for each object. The Current Location would then
display the updated location, in this case the Permanent Location, of each
object.
Your suggestion is a good one, and would be useful in accelerating what is otherwise a slow process. I have added your request to the "List of things to be done".
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