pergamonmu:quickstart:new_item
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| - In [**Author(s)**], begin to enter the phrase 'Tolkien, J.R.R.'. At present, Tolkien is probably not in the database yet. When you have finished the words, without anything being identified, press [**Return**] to display the [[pergamonmu:general:index_items|Manage Look Words]] dialog. If you finished typing the entire phrase, just press [**Return**] a second time to save the new entry and attach it to the item (or finish / edit the phrase, then press [**Return**])\\ \\ {{:pergamonmu:quickstart:quickstart-items-example-b.png?direct&100|}}\\ \\ | - In [**Author(s)**], begin to enter the phrase 'Tolkien, J.R.R.'. At present, Tolkien is probably not in the database yet. When you have finished the words, without anything being identified, press [**Return**] to display the [[pergamonmu:general:index_items|Manage Look Words]] dialog. If you finished typing the entire phrase, just press [**Return**] a second time to save the new entry and attach it to the item (or finish / edit the phrase, then press [**Return**])\\ \\ {{:pergamonmu:quickstart:quickstart-items-example-b.png?direct&100|}}\\ \\ | ||
| - Repeat the same process for any keywords. Each time you enter a new keyword, your cursor is returned to the [**Keyword(s)**] field so that you can enter more. In this way, you can enter a number of new keywords, or attach existing keywords, all with the keyboard. We entered the keywords 'Dragon', 'Farmer Giles', 'Folk Tales', 'Tom Bombadil', 'Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings'.\\ \\ | - Repeat the same process for any keywords. Each time you enter a new keyword, your cursor is returned to the [**Keyword(s)**] field so that you can enter more. In this way, you can enter a number of new keywords, or attach existing keywords, all with the keyboard. We entered the keywords 'Dragon', 'Farmer Giles', 'Folk Tales', 'Tom Bombadil', 'Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings'.\\ \\ | ||
| - | - If you know what reading levels exist in your database, do the same for the [**Levels**] field. We will assume that we do not, so we clicked the square [[pergamonmu:general:index_items|Lookup Manager]] button after the [**Levels**] field. In the [**Word**] field we then entered a character that we believed may be at the start of a phrase - 'N', guessing that we have a 'New Reader' category. In our case, 'New Reader' appeared in the left-hand list (found items) and we double-clicked it to move it to the right-hand list (attached). | + | - If you know what reading levels exist in your database, do the same for the [**Levels**] field. We will assume that we do not, so we clicked the square [[pergamonmu:general:index_items|Lookup Manager]] button after the [**Levels**] field. In the [**Word**] field we then entered a character that we believed may be at the start of a phrase - 'N', guessing that we have a 'New Reader' category. In our case, 'New Reader' appeared in the left-hand list (found items) and we double-clicked it to move it to the right-hand list (attached), then clicked [**Save**] to return the attachments to the Manage Items dialog.\\ \\ |
| - | - Ensure that for circulations purposes, you select | + | - If you did not have any reader levels in your database, enter the full description of a reader level into the [**Word**] field of the Manage Lookup Words dialog, the [**Create**] and [**Save**] in the usual way.\\ \\ {{:pergamonmu:quickstart:quickstart-config-closures-example-c.png?direct&100|New Item}}\\ \\ |
| + | - Once you have finished your catalogue item, ensure that you have selected values for the [**Availability**], [**Media**] and [**Audience**] fields as all of these are in some way used to calculate whether the item can be issued to a reader through a Circulation. | ||
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