[Download-List] Running DOWNLOAD Statements from Datatel's UI

[Jean Gehling]

If you happen to get any responses to your request to use DOWNLOAD with 
Query Builder, would you please post them back to the list if the replies 
go directly to you. We'd like to have this same functionality available for 
our users, but haven't investigated whether it could be done through Query 
Builder.

Thanks,
Jean Gehling
Programmer/Analyst
Library and Information Services
Luther College, Decorah IA 52101
gehlje01 at luther.edu (563)387-1405


At 11/9/2004 12:43 PM, you wrote:
>According to the FAQ document (R18FAQ.PDF), Item 27, found out at
>Datatel's Release 18 Resource Center
>(http://www.datatel.com/support/r18.cfm) "access to the colon prompt
>'within' the Colleague application or [the mnemonic] (SHEL) will no
>longer be available."  In the 3 sentences above that Datatel assures its
>clients that the colon prompt functionality will not be removed from R18
>and that even Datatel can not remove it.
>
>Having shared all that, Has anyone using Datatel's QueryBuilder
>successfully executed a stored sentence containing a DOWNLOAD statement
>from either the Before: or After: fields that are often used for doing a
>GETLIST and SAVELIST command respectively?
>
>If it helps, we are currently running DOWNLOAD 7.11 and Datatel's
>Colleague R17.
>
>A lot of my users are wanting to use QueryBuilder instead of having to
>exit the session of Colleague (most have only one ud session due to
>licensing) and open a telnet session to get access to the colon prompt.
>Since SHEL is going away, I am trying to see if it is feasible for our
>users to stay in GUI to run pre-written stored DOWNLOAD statements in
>the VOC and have the ability to change there SELECT statements from
>QueryBuilder.
>
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Jason Beach
>
>Systems Analyst II
>Office of Institutional Research
>Department of Institutional Effectiveness
>Texas State Technical College Marshall
>P O Box 1269
>Marshall, Texas 75671
>
>Office: (903) 923-3244
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>Email:  jason.beach at marshall.tstc.edu
>
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