The documentation for the newly released Athenaeum Pro web templates is now available. If you are exploring your web publishing options and would like to know more, please send an e-mail to support@sumware.co.nz requesting same and we will send by return e-mail.

We have a .pdf document that describes in detail how Kamar synchronises students and staff with the Athenaeum borrower list. If you would like a copy of the document, please drop us a quick e-mail with your details to our support address

To remove a name from the reserve list in the Athenaeum Catalogue, please click the little cross to the right of the name and then confirm the delete when prompted. You can also remove reserves from the borrower’s detail screen and the reserve list in a similar manner.

Standard Schedules Kamar installations using Athenaeum should instantiate at least the following two schedules on the Kamar server: These scripts should run daily after the “Kamar - Daily” script completes (allows 20 or 30 minutes). Server Script - Athenaeum can be found in the Kamar “Globals_” file (it is easiest to duplicate the Kamar Server daily script and […]

Athenaeum Pro 8.0 and 8.5 are compatible with Snow Leopard when running with FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro Advanced 9, FileMaker Pro 10, FileMaker Pro Advanced 10. At this stage, FileMaker Server 9 and 10 are not compatible with OS X 10.6 (will not launch). FileMaker Inc. expect to release a full FileMaker Server 10 installer […]

A number of schools using Athenaeum Pro with Kamar have reported that new students are not appearing in the borrower list and leaving students are not having their status updated. Kamar 903 modifies the evening Server “Daily” script and no longer synchronises with Athenaeum Pro. This function was broken out into a new schedule. Also, schools that […]

We have been asked by a number of schools running Athenaeum Pro and the Kamar student management system if both can be open at the same time. You can do this easily, but you will have to adjust your windows slightly. When you launch Athenaeum Pro using the “library” link, Kamar is still open behind, though it […]

We have encountered two instances of users updating their Athenaeum Pro 8 where the update procedure has not performed the very last step of the update procedure. It’s easy to trigger this manually. Go to Admin and click the utility tab and then the maintenance tab. Click the “Set Internal IDs” button. It should only take a […]

We have had quite a few questions about various “room” lists in Athenaeum Pro not printing correctly. If your rooms have values like 3, 4 or 15, then your rooms are “numbers”. If your rooms have values like 9WS, Hillary or 11E, then these values are not “numbers” and are considered by the computer to be […]

If you are using the Mac version of Athenaeum and your Mac is running OS X 10.5, then you must apply the recently released 10.5.3 updater. It fixes a potentially serious OS X problem where the wrong window sometimes gets selected.