Generate an inventory report (Library Manager and Media Manager)

In Progress & Completed Inventory reports let you view a summary of your inventories, and generate reports listing the copies in them.

For in-progress inventories, you can see which copies still need to be found.

To generate an In-Progress Inventory report:

1. Access the report in one of the following ways:

   If you select:	Then:
   Reports > Library Reports	In the Inventory Control section, click In-Progress Inventories.
   Admin > Inventory Note: The Library Materials tab only appears if you have multiple Destiny products and you are viewing all.	Click View In-Progress & Completed Inventories. Click In Progress.

   The In-Progress Inventory list appears.

   Note: To sort the list, click any column heading to sort in descending order. Click again to sort the list in ascending order.

2. Next to the inventory, click View. The report setup page appears.

   
   

3. At Report on, select the copies to view in the report:
   • Copies in the inventory
   • Copies that have been 'Accounted For'
   • Copies that are 'Unaccounted For'
     
4. Click Run Report. Job Manager displays your report at the top of the list. The status automatically updates.
   
5. When the status is Completed, do one of the following:
   • To view the Job Summary, click View.
   • To open the report as a PDF, click PDF.

To generate a Completed Inventory report:

1. Access the report in one of the following ways:

   If you select:	Then:
   Reports > Library Reports	In the Inventory Control section, click Completed Inventories.
   Admin > Inventory	Click the View In-Progress & Completed Inventories link. Click the Completed tab.

   The Completed Inventory list appears.

   Note: To sort the list, click any column heading to sort in descending order. Click again to sort the list in ascending order.

2. Next to the report, click View. The Job Summary displays a summary of the report options.
3. Click Report to view the full report.

To delete a completed inventory, click Remove. Once you delete an inventory, you can no longer generate its reports.

And, once you delete a Completed Inventory report, you can no longer view the completed inventory.

Report Contents

At the top, the report shows the name of the inventory, school name, and overall totals of Accounted For and Unaccounted For copies.

The report is first grouped into Accounted For and Unaccounted For sections. If you generated an In-Progress report and chose Accounted For or Unaccounted For, the report is limited to those copies.

For each copy, the report includes columns for the following information:

• Copy barcode number
• Call Number
• Author
• Title
• Date the copy was last seen

The date the report was generated appears at the bottom of the last page.

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