Rob recently presented a FileMaker Server technical session at the KAMAR conference. This video was the one he showed on how to stop FileMaker Server’s quickly and safely. Tech alert!!!! This is a technical video, not a library one, so you should pass link this onto the tech support person. Click the link to view. http://youtu.be/O0AsJakXlY8

Athenaeum Pro exposes more of its internals with respect to “Titles” and “Copies”. As an administrator, you work with individual copies of items or media. You can, however, configure Athenaeum Pro 2011 searchers to see only “Titles” when searching or the individual copies. Click the image to see a short, silent video highlights some of the […]

As of 2007, ISBN codes were transitioned from 10 digit codes to 13 digit codes. If you are not familiar with the details, you can read about it here Library of Congress 13 digit ISBN or SCIS ISBN 13 FAQ Many cataloging services now return ISBNs in the 13 digit format. If you have items in your catalogue with […]

Below is a link to the most recent video, updated for Athenaeum Pro 8.6 for a manual import of borrowers from a csv file. This works for csv (comma separated), tab (tab delimited) and Excel spreadsheets. The full list of fields that are available for you to import into is at the end of the video. As with […]

There is more than one way to import data into Athenaeum. Normally, you go to the list view into which you wish to import the data and choose import records and then match up your fields and import. One site had an unusual issue where they couldn’t do this, so we had them instead jump into the […]

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 […]