Enabling the Shelf mark column on the Reservations tab

On the Reservations tab in Adloan Circulation, in the list of reserved copies, there is a Shelf mark column present. Reservations are mostly made on title, in which case a shelf mark won’t be available, but when a reservation is made on copy number, it is handy to have its shelf mark available here, for instance if a copy reserved by telephone or website is already present on the shelf and must be retrieved by a co-worker. Although the new column is directly visible (in Adloan 7.1 and higher), it will only be filled with the shelf mark after a reservation on copy number when you’ve made some changes to the reserv database structure, here in Axiell Designer. You can do that as follows:

1.To be safe, create a backup of your database(s) and your Adlib \data folder first.
2.In the Application browser of Axiell Designer, open the \data folder, and in it the reserve database structure definition. Create a new field in the Fields list: right-click Fields and select New > Field in the pop-up menu. For this normal field, provide the tag ey and the field name copy.shelfmark: that name can be entered for the other languages as well. The maximum length of the field must be set to 64. Leave the other options as they are.
3.In the reserv database structure now select the copy.number (r0) field and open its Linked field mapping properties tab. In the upper list (Copy fields from linked record) two mapped fields are present already; a third one must be added here. In the Source field in copies column, click the left … button in the third, empty row: choose the shelfmark field (tag ey) from the list of fields that opens and click OK. Back in the field properties, click the right … button (in the third row again, now in the Destination fields in RESERV column), select the new copy.shelfmark field (tag ey again) and click OK.
4.Save the changes in the reserve database structure.