Resources and FAQs for Patron Utilities in Voyager
- Product: Voyager
- Product Version: All
- Relevant for Installation Type: Dedicated-Direct; Direct; Local; Total Care
Question
Where can I find information on Voyager's patron utilities (Patron Update, Patron Purge, Patron Export, SIF and XML formats, etc)?
Answer
Voyager Technical User's Guide contains chapters on
- Patron Batch Jobs in XML (PpatronImpX, PpatronExpX, PpatronPrg)
- Patron Extract (Patron SIF Method)
- Patron Update (Patron SIF Method)
- Circulation Batch Jobs (Patron Purge (Circjob 39))
- Patron Record Standard Interface File (SIF)
See links to additional resources and articles covering common questions and issues in Additional Information.
Additional Information
Knowledge Center Overview
Resources on Developers Network
XML Patron Export Service
XML Patron Import Service
XSD for XML Patron Schema
How do I ... ?
- Remove expired patron barcodes from patron records?
- How to migrate new barcodes to Voyager
- Can Patron Update be used to blank out Title field in patron record?
- How to batch delete Social Security Numbers?
- How to batch delete duplicate patrons?
- Can multiple addresses be updated with patron update?
- Is there a way to mass-populate a default PIN for patrons?
- Is it possible to batch delete patron notes?
- Omit elements that are not required in the XML import file?
Patron file format
Log messages / Troubleshooting
- "INVALID RECORD DATA! It must contain Patron Group 1!Record written to exception file"
- Log message "Current permanent address is protected" after Patron Update
- Patron update log: "The address record has an ending date which precedes the beginning date"
- Patron Update log shows Error Code -1843
- Patron Update produces error "Invalid record size!"
- log.pupd* error: "attempting to update existing barcode with blank barcode"
- Patron update log message "Name Type is missing from input file"
- Record update note_count failure in table "patron" in audit.dat
- Pcircjob 39 Patron Purge does not run from crontab after upgrade
- Patron Purge (XML) gives errors in log and doesn't run
- Patron Purge (XML) giving log4j errors and not running
- NOT DELETED|Database Error when running PpatronPrg
Article last edited: 29-Jun-2016