Hi David,
 
We use schedule moves a lot.  It gives our curatorial department the
ability to request a movement, produce a relocation request and our
office the ability to complete the move all within TMS.  
 
Back when we first started with TMS, we had to assign home locations to
our objects as well.  We have a series of report checks that
automatically run every month.  We check for scheduled moves past their
scheduled date.  We do quarterly reports of all permanent collection
objects not in their home locations or in temporary locations. We do
reports of permanent collection objects and their home locations.
 
We use the schedule move feature for projects such as the return to the
Villa location.   We produced reports that said where an object should
be placed on display or in storage.
 
Contact me off list if you have more questions.  Thanks.

Carole.
 
Carole Campbell
Registrar for Collections Management
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90049
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>>> On Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:39 AM, "Aylsworth, David"
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Is anyone successfully using the *Schedule a move to a home location*
feature in TMS?  
 
We currently only use *Move to a Temporary Location* when we record
location changes.  Our collections managers and art handlers would like
us to start using *Home Locations* so that we can successfully generate
reports of where an object needs to go once it has come off of display. 
Using only Temporary Locations, that is not possible as far as I could
tell.
 
Additionally, they want to be able to flag things that have been in a
temporary location too long so that they can be returned.  Often, a
curator will request that a piece be moved for a review, but will not
necessarily request that it be moved back.  I*m visualizing that if we
had a home location for an object, and made a temporary location change,
we could at the same time SCHEDULE a return to its home location at a
time appropriately after their review, project, or exhibition.  Without
looking too closely at the table structure, it seems like I could write
a report to be run periodically that would identify the things that are
scheduled to go back in a certain time frame so that we do not have to
depend on a curator telling us when something is ready to be returned.
 
Am I thinking along the lines with how the feature was designed?  Can
someone who is successfully doing something along these lines let me
know how it is working for them?
 
Thanks, and happy Friday!
 
David
 
David Aylsworth
Collections Registar
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
tel:  713-639-7824
fax: 713-639-7780