A Voyager template is a file that supplies data in a Voyager bibliographic, holdings, or authority record, as appropriate. When it is set in your Voyager preferences, it automatically provides information that is always or very frequently the same in a particular category of your work, such as creating provisional bib records or creating MARC holdings records for single-volume monographs going to the regular Howard-Tilton stacks. To have a customized template serves as a tool to make your workflow more streamlined and less time-consuming.
(Please note: Templates are applied at the time of record creation; they cannot be incorporated into records that already exist.)
Several templates are already available in your Voyager client. It is also possible to create new templates.
In the Voyager application:
or
Alt-O
[letter “oh”], Enter, Alt-F
Tab to the desired type of template.
2.
3. To look at the template options, click on the triple dots towards the right.
c:\voyager\catalog\template
There are generic templates under the following paths:
Usually, though, you will use specific templates that have been customized for our Cataloging Department. They are located within the folders:
For example, the file for the bibliographic record provisional template is normally
prov.tem
For example, the commonly used template files for:
singlestx.tem
singlelal.tem
single.tem
multistx.tem
multilal.tem
multi.tem
serialstx.tem
seriallal.tem
serial.tem
That file, including its complete path, should appear in the appropriate section of the Templates box under Voyager Files/Folders preferences.
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If none of the existing templates is suitable for the work that you are doing, you can create a new one. You have control over what needs to be on each template you create.
You must have at least one template for each type of record you want to create (e.g., prov.tem, singlestx.tem, auth.tem). To create a template:
or
Use the keyboard sequence:
Alt-F,
T, Enter
or
Use the Down arrow cursor and hit Enter when you reach your choice.
The system template for the record type you selected should be displayed.
Specifically, you can go to the links below to get to the documentation:
Bib
record
|
||
Holdings
record
|
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Authority
record |
or
Use the keyboard equivalent:
Control-A
Please note: The naming convention should be a unique name. The suffix for the file must be .tem.
When a template is saved, it is not validated against the MARC tag table or authority records.
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draft 23 November 2002
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