Exporting - Authority Records
Discover how to set preferences for general, international, and TCP/IP authority record export. Export preferences must be set before exporting records.
Overview
This accordion allows you to set preferences for authority record export. Export preferences must be set before exporting records.
- In the left navigation, click User Preferences.
- From the User Preferences screen, click Exporting - Authority Records.
Note: After setting preferences in General, International, or TCP/IP:
- Click Reset Form to restore original default settings.
- Click Discard Page Changes to discard the changes you made and retain your previous settings. A confirmation dialog displays to confirm the discardment. Click Discard to confirm and discard your changes.
Set preferences for international export
- Exporting - Authority Records accordion: International tab - Image
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- Click the International tab.
- For Diacritic Character Usage, select whether you want Decomposed or Precomposed.
- Click Save.
Set preferences for TCP/IP export
Note: Institutions with a firewall must configure it to recognize and accept data from the following IP address to export records directly from OCLC into an ILS: 132.174.100.234
- Connexion: 132.174.2.*
- Record Manager: 132.174.100.*
- Exporting - Authority Records accordion: TCP/IP tab - Image
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- Click the TCP/IP tab.
- For TCP/IP connection options, enter:
- Host Name - Enter the TCP/IP name (e.g., lib.domain.edu) or the numeric TCP/IP address of the host computer that runs your local system.
- Port Number - Enter the following port range: 30000-30499. All the ports in this range must be open.
- Authentication - Select an authentication method from the drop-down list.
- None
- Login ID - Enter the ID and password to access your local system. Select Mark Password if you do not want the password to be visible.
- User ID - Enter the ID to access your local system.
- For Connection Delay, select the wait time, in minutes, that occurs between each record sent in a batch from the drop-down list. The default wait time is 0.25 minutes.
- For Connection Attempts, select the maximum number of attempts to retry connecting to the local system if the first connection attempt fails from the drop-down list. The default maximum number is 0.
- For Gateway Export Response Messaging, click Use Messaging to enable messaging.
- If enabled, select the amount of time, in seconds, that messaging is displayed from the Messaging Timeout drop-down list. The default amount of time until timeout is 5 seconds.
- Click Save.