Abstract & revision notes

Use Bibliographic Constant Data

Abstract

Selecting, creating, editing, using and finding constant data records.

Revision history

Last updated: November 2005

Revision History
Date Section title Description of changes
November 2003

All sections

Updated to document renamed actions: Apply Default CD and Apply CD From List (formerly Select Constant Data). Describes new action; Apply CD By Name.

 

7. Use CD search results

Describes new capability to flag and delete multiple CD records.

February 2004

3. Create CD

Revised to reflect enhanced functions for deriving a new CD record from a bibliographic record or from an existing CD record: option to select variable fields to transfer and ability to choose to transfer all fixed-field values or default values only.

 

7. CD search results

Noted that record-viewing buttons are hidden by default and provided keystroke (<Alt><Y>) to show the buttons.

July 2004

1. Overview; 2. Apply CD by Name or from list; 3. Create constant data; 4. Edit constant data; 5. Use default CD; 7. Use CD results

Changed terminology to refer to constant data file (not CD database). Added information on procedure for retaining empty variable fields and/or subfields in CD records.

November 2004

1. CD overview

Revised to state that users can delete their default constant data record at any time.

November 2005

6. Find CD records

Added list of stopwords for searching the bibliographic CD file.


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