Non-Working feature and workaround?

[Aldo Lauria Santiago <alauria@nospam.mediaone.net>]

Has anyone on the list edited the list of journals that provides the 
"authority list" for the  "Journal title" Field of IBIDEM?  The help manual 
claims that this list is auto-updated--and should thus include all the 
journal titles that I have previously entered, but this function does not 
work.  The list of journals I get seems like a stock list that came with 
the program but is not dynamic.  The authority lists for Author, Keywords, 
etc. do include the records from previous entries.  The company should note 
this problem for a future fix.  It would be great also to have instructions 
on how to manually alter these files.  A useful new feature would be to 
allow users to add the Authority List option to any other field.  For 
example, I have added a field to all my databases that lists the status of 
my work with that item; the options I usually enter are: YES, NO, RETURN, 
and SCAN.  It would be great to have these options available for selection 
from a drop down menu.

Aldo Lauria Santiago
Associate Professor
History Department
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610

508-793-3447
http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/history/alauria