NWIUG 2003
Exporting and Manipulating Data


List some of the Data - Text

  • Always sort your list first!
  • Print up to 30 selected fields
  • In text, uses the same selection options as when creating a list, except for the PRINT ITEM prompt
  • In text only, you can "limit set" related to criteria
    Example: You create a list of materials cataloged in the last month. Then, you use this function to extract title, author, publisher, etc., and limit to BIB LVL=s for new periodicals. Repeat limiting to ITYPE or MAT TYPE used for videos. Repeat limiting to 856 <> [empty] for electronic resources, etc.
  • You may then specify the page layout including
    • whether variable length fields begin on new lines,
    • number of blank lines between records
    • page heading

  • Print your list to email
  • Save your email as a file
  • Open your file in application of choice and manipulate until it looks like you want!
Process example (telnet version)