Month: February, 2010

Custom Circulation Search - Overdues but not “Staff”

Here’s a very short movie showing how to perform a custom find in the Athenaeum Pro circulation (using FileMaker Pro version 10). As always, you can start, stop and replay the movie at any time. […]

Deleting Reserves

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.

Synchronising Athenaeum Library and Resource

Here’s a silent movie showing how to set up a FileMaker Server script to synchronise borrowers and photos within Athenaeum Pro and Resource. Click the thumbnail to get started.

Borrower Levels

Here’s a narrated movie showing how Borrower Levels stored with borrower types and individual items work together to assist you restricting certain kinds of issues. Click the image to open the video in YouTube in HD (you can change the settings if your internet connection isn’t fast enough). Or click this link for an alternative site.

FileMaker compatibility chart

Athenaeum is a FileMaker based family of products. FileMaker Inc. have published a compatibility chart for all versions of FileMaker Pro back to version 1, which appeared in 1985.* Support article 4701 We are posting this link here as a reference, for your information. the list does not include FileMaker Pro’s predecessor, the DOS program called Nutshell!

Standard Athenaeum FileMaker Server scripts for Kamar sites

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 […]