Download a tag bucket file from NLIS database
Download a Tag Bucket File from NLIS database
Step 2. Select the Log In option

Step 3. Login to NLIS
- Enter your NLIS user ID and NLIS password
- Click on the Login button

Step 4. View devices on my property
- In the box below where it says What do you want to do today?
- Select View devices on my property
- Click on the Go button

Step 5. Selecting the Report Type
PIC (Property Identification Code) - can select All PICs or just one.
Report Type - The most common types of reports are:
All devices currently on my PIC (no date range) - use if you are setting up Stockbook for the first time and you want to export all tag bucket files of all NLIS tags purchased into Stockbook.
Device Purchased - use if you only wish to export the tag bucket file of your most recently purchased NLIS tags.
If you selected “Devices Purchased” you will need to select the start date and end date for tags purchased in that period.
Click on the Go button.

- Click on the Export button in the bottom right corner
Step 7. In the Available fields box
Click on NLIS ID to highlight
Click on the Add button
Click on RFID to highlight
Click on the Add button
NLIS ID and RFID should now appear in the Selected fields box
This would make a bucket type of ‘NLIS ID, RFID’ because the tag bucket file type is created by the order in which fields are selected (see example below).
- Leave the delimiter as ‘Comma – (,)’
- Click on the Submit button.

Step 8. Click on the down arrow in the window that opens up
- Click on Open
- Save file to a location that is easy to find. (e.g. Desktop or My Documents)

- Once you have downloaded and saved your Tag Bucket File, see the following link on how to Import Tag Bucket Files into Stockbook
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