Recently, a few sites have reported some unusual problems with Athenaeum - Windows or Mac. One was that new items could not be added to the catalogue. Another was that a message to the effect of “opening as read-only” was briefly displayed. These were both caused by the same thing - a misconfiguration of the operating system. The […]

Here is a quick silent screen cast on how to enable instant web publishing in Athenaeum Express. In this example, FileMaker Pro Advanced version 9 is used to open Athenaeum Express, however FileMaker Pro 8.5 or 9.0 will work in the same way. Before opening the web publishing options, we navigate to one of the audit layouts […]

If you have an Athenaeum pull-down menu, such as the location or book type menu, and it has an error in it, then it’s a relatively simple task to clean it up. This movie shows you how. It is a QuickTime Movie, so if your Windows computer does not have QuickTime installed, just go to the QuickTime […]

Opening Athenaeum over the Network with FileMaker If you are sharing Athenaeum databases using multiple copies of FileMaker Pro 9 in either a “client-server” or a “peer-to-peer” network, there are a few ways to connect from the networked computers. As in the past, you can download a simple FileMaker opener file from our download site: http://www.sumware.net/athdownloads/athenaeumpro7_client.fp7.zip. Or, you […]

I put a movie, sans sound-track, upon our web site a while ago for a client to show them how to do a manual import of borrowers from a tab file created by their admin system. This is quite timely for our southern hemisphere schools who are starting back this year. The movie shows you how […]

Yesterday, we posted a version of Athenaeum Express 8.5 that is compatible with Apple’s brand new Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Click this link for a Leopard compatible version of Athenaeum Express 8.5 Compatible? Athenaeum and all versions of FileMaker before 9.0v1 pre-dated Mac OS X 10.5. When OS X 10.5 was released, a number of compatibility issues […]

Mac Athenaeum users installing Leopard must update their Athenaeum Pro and/or FileMaker software. Watch our download pages for compatible versions of Athenaeum. Go to Download Page

2 November 2007 - FileMaker Inc have released the 9.0v2 update for FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Advanced. If you are installing or are planning to install Mac OS X 10.5 and are networking Athenaeum, you should install this update. See FileMaker’s Leopard Compatibility update page for more information. If you are not networking Athenaeum and just using it […]

You can, via a web page, upload your files to us if we need to see them. Click this link to go to the upload page. Here is a .pdf file that describes the process. uploading_files_to_swc.pdf

Click the Catalogue button in the top navigation menu bar and you go to the catalogue list (the list of titles). Hold the shift key while clicking the Catalogue button and you jump directly to the list of Copies stored in the catalogue.