If you are running Athenaeum on Windows, you might notice the narrow grey status bar across the bottom of the screen. Turn it off. It doesn’t do very much and you will have just that extra bit more screen area for your Athenaeum screens. Simply select “Status Bar” from the View Menu and toggle it off.

Athenaeum Pro 7.0 and 7.5 Yes, you may, however you should not do so while the item is issued. Note that when changing a bar code, you lose the history for the item (the history is linked to the old bar code). One trick to work around this limitation is to store both bar codes in the bar […]

Athenaeum Pro 7.0 and 7.5 Ultimately, yes. The bar code is the unique identifier for every item (copy) in the catalogue. However, you can import data (say from a MARC source or a spreadsheet) and not have Athenaeum Pro generate bar codes automatically. Until a bar code is entered, you cannot issue or take stock of the […]

Removing Trial Data When you’ve finished with the sample data in Athenaeum, you want to remove it so you can enter your own data. This is quite easy, if not obvious. Athenaeum includes sample catalogue records, borrowers, borrower types, circulation data, history data and catalogue archives. To remove this data, you can either go to each module in […]

When networking Athenaeum, you need to open Athenaeum using FileMaker Pro. Download this short document describing how to do it: Using Atheneaum with FileMaker

Installing the Athenaeum Bar code font Athenaeum uses SumWare Consulting’s proprietary bar code font. The font is stored inside Athenaeum and needs to be downloaded to your computer’s hard drive and then installed in the operating system in the same way that you would install any other font. The following movie (QuickTime required) shows how to install the […]

Athenaeum Pro 7.5 changes Athenaeum Pro 7.5 adds some requested features over version 7.0. optional individual user accounts and passwords for every borrower new web client accounts Intel Macintosh “Universal Binary” interface revisions - larger windows, fresher colours pop-up calendars on most date fields tooltip help on administration settings revised e-mailing techniques send data to Excel worksheets revised menu structure and extra keyboard shortcuts built-in version […]

Editing Bar Code and Spine Labels using FileMaker Pro Download and read this short Adobe Acrobat .pdf document to find out more: Editing Athenaeum Labels using FileMaker

Importing Excel 2007 documents Athenaeum Pro 7.0, 7.5, Athenaeum Express 8 and Athenaeum Light 7.0 can import data that is saved as Excel spreadsheets. However, Microsoft recently released a new version of Excel - Excel 2007 - that uses a different file format which can not be imported directly. The solution is to first save a copy of […]