Athenaeum Light 3 Extend Bug

August 1998. The Institute of Christian Studies in Austin, Texas, were sharp enough to report a bug in Athenaeum Light 3.0.2. The problem occurs when trying to "Extend" loans. Here is a solution and a work-around.

When SumWare Consulting introduced the new "scanner" method of entering data into Athenaeum Light, we omitted to remove an embedded loop in the extend routine. If you have Athenaeum Light 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 and you wish to extend loans, you need to either:

return the item to be extended and then re-issue it; or
modify the extend script to fix the bug

Modifying the Extend Script

If you are a FileMaker Pro programmer, this is a fairly simple procedure.

Back up all of your Athenaeum Light files (this is not an optional step).
Open Athenaeum Light with FileMaker Pro 3.0 or 4.0 (or higher) with the top password. If you don't know the top password, then email SumWare Consulting and we will tell you it.
Go to the Circulation file (click on "Circulation" on the main menu).
Open ScriptMaker and scroll down until you find the ask itemID for loan extension script. Open it.
Remove the first "Loop" step and last "End Loop" steps.
Click "OK" and then "Done".

That's it, you're done.