Here is a short movie showing you some of the ways for returning items to the catalogue in Athenaeum Pro 8 It is a QuickTime Movie, so if your Windows computer does not have QuickTime installed, just go to the QuickTime web site and download then install the free software.

For school libraries using Athenaeum Pro with the Kamar Student Management System, you can configure your database server to automatically synchronise staff and student photos overnight. Do this by creating a FileMaker Server schedule that runs the following FileMaker Pro script: Synchronise Kamar photos which you will find in the file called ap_photo. Use your standard Kamar user […]

Finding recently purchased items not issued Today I had a query asking how you find items purchased in the current year that have yet to be issued. This movie shows you how to do this in Athenaeum Pro 8: It is a QuickTime Movie, so if your Windows computer does not have QuickTime installed, just go to the […]

Starting with Athenaeum Pro 8, we have made a small tweak to the version numbering system. Athenaeum Pro 8 version numbers look like this: 8.0v20081103 Where: the first digit(s) to the left of the decimal point are the main version number the number between the decimal point and the “v” […]

Athenaeum Pro 8 is based on FileMaker Pro 9 technology. As at the time of this post, FileMaker Pro 9 has been available for about 16 months and is quite well established. If you are networking Athenaeum Pro 8, you will need FileMaker Pro 9 on the client computers (that is, the ones not using web […]

Athenaeum Pro 8 - Importing Dates Athenaeum Pro 8 releases you from having to enter the dates of the next holidays after every break and also accommodates public holidays. It achieves this by allowing you to enter all future recesses and public holidays. This is nice, in itself, however Athenaeum Pro 8 will import recesses for a […]

This video is a very quick run through some of the new features of Athenaeum Pro 8 - from the perspective of someone who has used Athenaeum Pro 8 before. You can start and stop the video any time you like - which you may need to do as the topics are only touched upon briefly. […]

Here’s a quick movie that shows you how to delete part of the issue history. This example shows how to delete the history prior to 1 January 2006.

This note is still relevant, so it’s worth linking to our old Athenaeum Notes archive document about importing Athenaeum Light 6 data into Athenaeum Light 7: Note 37 As always, if you get stuck, please contact support.

Here’s a quick movie that shows you how to store a “locator” graphic in Athenaeum Pro 7.6. In this example, the graphic is stored on the desktop.