On the Catalogue, Copies, Borrower status, Borrower category, Borrower, Fines, Copy reservations, Title reservations, Loan fees and Statistics tabs*, which are present when you have selected a new or existing Adloan Circulation application in the Application browser, you specify the names and locations of databases and datasets, and the relevant tags in them, which are used by Adloan for handling and registering transactions.
If your \data folder has been installed in the standard directory (as a subfolder of an Adlib folder, next to the subfolders for the executables and possible other Adlib modules and applications), and in your Adlib databases you have never altered the names of datasets or tags, then the default settings on these tabs do not need changing. Only if the \data folder has been placed somewhere else, or when you changed names of files or tags, you should use this option to set up the Loans module with these changes.
Click here for information on how to edit properties in general. And click here to read about how to manage objects in the tree view in the Application browser. On the current tab you'll find the following settings:

File path

Enter the absolute or relative path (the latter is preferred) to your \data folder, followed by a "+", then the database file name, and when you want to point to a dataset in there then a ">", and finally followed by the dataset name. The Catalogue path name, for example, is: ../data+document>fullcatalogue

If you use a database without datasets, you can leave out the greater-than symbol and the dataset name.

Storage adapl

If, for loan transactions in the current database, you would like to use a different storage adapl than the standard storage adapl specified for this database in the data dictionary, then you may enter it here. This option is rarely used.

Example: if you wanted to write issuing transactions to a special history file, you could write an adapl to do this (before or after) storage of transactions in the Copies database. The adapl could filter transactions using the reserved variable &5. You would link the adapl in the current property of the Copies data source of the Adloan Circulation pbk.

Fields

For each database field that is used by the Loans module, the tag must be specified here. In the standard installation of the system, fixed tag names are used. Only change these default tag names if absolutely necessary and you know what you're doing. Default tags are necessary for dealing with possible malfunctioning quickly and effectively.

In applications older than version 4.2, an Image field setting may be missing on the Borrower properties tab: this is because the possibility to set an Image field only became available in Axiell Designer 6.5.0. It allows Adlib Circulation to retrieve an image (e.g. a passport photo) which you linked to a borrower in Adlib Loans management, and to show it on every tab in Adloan Circulation when the user selects the relevant borrower.
To implement this functionality, you must add the Image field from the Borrower database, to the Image field property on the Borrower tab. By the way, Adloan requires the adlibimg.dll for this functionality. This dll should be located in the same folder as your Adlib executables (and is probably already present there).

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* By default the following data sources are present (although invisible to the user) in an Adloan application:

Data source

Contents

Catalogue

The central loans database, with a record for each item (title or object) that can be issued. This is where the Loans module registers loan transactions for all items in circulation.

Copies

Contains details on each copy.

Borrower status

Contains information about the number of borrower transactions, and determines via the borrower category which limits and fine tables should apply to the borrower.

Borrower category

Contains the defined borrower categories. A borrower category determines which limits apply in total and per loan category (material type).

Borrower

Contains the borrower subscription details. It links the borrower to a certain borrower number and contains the term of validity of the subscription.

Fines

Contains information about fines and payments for each borrower for whom there is an outstanding fine.

Copy reservations

Contains reservation details per copy.

Title reservations

Contains reservation details per title.

Loan fees

Contains information on amounts owed and payments for each borrower for whom there is an outstanding loan fee.

Statistics

Contains counters that are logged per unique combination of transaction type - borrower category - loan category.