Create a Hit List for Available books, set for Upload, create Purge\Replace file

The purpose of these instructions is twofold:
1. Setting records in general to upload based on all Available records
2. Creating the upload file for manual upload to the services.

To create a Hit List to find all Available records, set them for Upload, then create the upload file for manual upload:
1.	Click on "Hit List" tab (2nd from bottom on left side of screen)
2.	Click New. A pop-up prompt window appears. Type in a name for this Hit List and enter it in the field next to "Name". Click OK to close the pop-up.
3.	The "Set Field Criteria" tab displays with your cursor positioned in the "Search Field" column. A drop-down button should be there; if it isn't, click anywhere inside the field to display it.
4.	In this first row in the "Search Field" column, click on the drop-down button & select "Status" from the list of choices. "AVAILABLE" appears automatically in the Search Criteria column.
5.	Click Execute to create a list of all Available records.
!!	VERIFY THAT THE RECORDS ARE CORRECT BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE NEXT STEP.
6.	Click on "Hit List" tab (2nd from bottom on left side of screen) again.
7.	Click the "Action" tab, upper right corner. (Underneath "Invert Results")
8.	Click Upload on the left. Over on the right side, under "Action" you should see "Upload Records" and "Yes" should be selected.
9.	Click the "Execute" button. The hit List will start to process, then a message box will popup asking you if you want to change records. Click Yes. The Hit List will finish processing. What you have just done is set all Available records for Upload.
10.	Click the red Hit List button at the top to get out of Hit List mode
11.	Click on File > Export > UIEE at the top left corner of the program, just above the large Inventory button.
12.	Some sites require that the Purge/Replace file is named Purge, such as Biblio and Chrislands websites, to name but a couple.If this is not an issue for you then skip 13 & 14 and go on to 15.
13.	Click Export Setup and make sure you have in the second or third row C:\BTPro\Transfer\Purge_1.txt with your correct price selected on the left.
14.	Close the Export Form with the X in the upper right corner.
15.	Click the Start button. Wait for the yellow bar to finish going across, and the Cancel button to change back to Start. Click the Close button.
16.	Your file of all Available records is located in the C:\BTPro\Transfer folder and should be named Upload_1.txt or Purge_1.txt. Either file will work for a Purge/Replace on any of the services.
17.	Check with each service on how to upload a file manually through their respective websites.
18.	If you are doing this for ABE only then login to your ABE account and click the Purge All Listed books link, then the Purge button. Click Return to Member's menu if you are not already there after clicking Purge. Click the Upload a Book or Picture File link. Click the Browse button and find the file in the the C:\BTPro\Transfer folder. Select it, click Send File. Wait for ABE to process.

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