I would definitely be interested in this as well!  I have the same question/problem, and have been meaning to survey the list. Especially interested as we have items that will going back on display after a rotation or two, so aside from entering the Location changes, we would lose the information on when it was on exhibition if we just used the Exh-Objects Display Begin and End date fields. Also thought about using the Exhibitions Objects – Status Tab –Statuses to note on/off rotation dates. (Although I don’t always have a chance to do this in a timely manner, so that kind of defeats the purpose.)

Thanks Alexis for asking the question! 

If anyone replies off-list, could you copy me as well?

Thanks!

Diane.

Hello all,

Has anyone been using the Exhibitions Module in TMS2010 to record their permanent gallery installations, and if so, have you had to deal with documenting partial object rotations? We want to plan out several years of rotations in exhibition records that we are creating for each gallery of the museum, and there seems to be several ways to go about doing this:

·         entering rotation dates in the Exh-Objects “Display Begin Date” and “Display End Date” fields  

·         entering rotation information in the Exh-Objects “Section” and “Sub-section” fields

·         re-adding ourselves as an additional Venue for each rotation

I can see positives and drawbacks to each method and would be grateful to hear from anyone who has worked on something similar or who has ideas on the matter.

Thanks for any help.

Alexis Lenk

TMS Administrator

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