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Change physical items job -- adding notes

The Change physical items job allows you to add Internal notes 1-3 or Statistical notes 1-3 by REPLACING any notes that already exist in that field, but not by adding the note IN ADDITION TO already existing text. This option needs to be added. Also, the current job allows you to skip records that already contain notes in your selected field but a "successful" run does not report out which records were SKIPPED as a result.

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  • Daniel Múnera Willes commented  · 

    This append option should include the possibility to mark the new note as popup or visible to user.

  • Janelle Sander commented  · 

    This would be especially helpful for institutions who have just migrated and need to add information to different notes fields than the fields to which the information was migrated. Instead, if notes need to be added, currently, these notes need to be added one-by-one, record-by-record.

  • Mary Grenci commented  · 

    This seems to have languished, as it has been here since 2016. It is a much needed improvement to the system and has a large number of votes so I hope Ex Libris will begin its implementation!

  • Anonymous commented  · 

    Has there been any update to this?

  • wslian commented  · 

    This idea is great, and it is also very important to many libraries. I hope it can be carried out as soon as possible. Thank you.

  • Melissa Gevaert commented  · 

    This would be ideal for ALL note fields that can be changed through this job. We often need to bulk add notes to the fulfillment note, and it would be nice to not have it delete existing notes.

  • Anonymous commented  · 

    It would also be extremely helpful if we could PREPEND information...maybe the option to add text either at the beginning or at the end of what is already there.

  • Lynne Billington commented  · 

    Being able to APPEND information to the end of an existing note without wiping out the other contents would also be really helpful

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