FileMaker today released an updater to FileMaker Pro 8.5v1 and FileMaker Pro Advanced 8.5v1 to fix a printing problem on large print documents and a Vista compatibility fix. http://www.filemaker.com/support/downloads/index.html Download and install this large update (broadband is necessary to download this). This update does not apply for Macintosh nor earlier versions of FileMaker Pro. 21 March 2007

Catalogue You can quickly find a list of books purchased in the catalogue for any particular year by performing a “Detail Search” or a manual search. go to the catalogue detail (looking at any book) press Control-F (on Windows) or Command (Apple)-F (on Macintosh) to enter find mode If you have FileMaker Pro 8 or 8.5, Athenaeum Pro 7 […]

In the last 2 weeks, 2 libraries have had the same funny due dates for issues in Athenaeum Pro. At first, I was a bit puzzled as the set-ups seemed just fine. The first thing we looked at were the “latest due date” and the holiday dates. All sounded just fine over the phone. The problem lay in […]

A quick note for users Athenaeum Light 6, Pro 6 or Express 6 or earlier and who are running this software on an Intel based Macintosh (which is almost all Macintoshes sold in the last 12 months). Older programs run in a mode called “Rosetta” on Intel Macintoshes. If you are running Mac OS X 10.4 […]

A feature that slipped into Athenaeum Pro 7.5, Express 8.0 and any FileMaker 8.0 or 8.5 database is the ability to quickly find records matching the record you are currently looking at. Finding all Matching For example, say you are looking at a catalogue item whose publisher is Ashton Scholastic and you wanted to find all of […]

When issuing a reserved item, Athenaeum will always default to the first in the issue queue. If you try to issue to someone else, Athenaeum Pro will display the message From time to time, we get requests asking to be able to override this. Well, you can quite easily. Simply issue using “GO” mode. “GO” mode is an […]

A bug in Athenaeum Pro 7.0 was recently found. Notification letters printed to reservers of items are addressed to the newest reserver of that item instead of the oldest reserver. I don’t have a fix for this yet, though it is pretty high up on the list of things. There is a work around. Simply try to issue […]