[Evergreen-acq] ACQ Fiscal Year bug reports and 3.10 issue

[Lindsay Stratton]

And thank you, Tiffany, for digging in and adding extra context!

*Lindsay Stratton*
*Systems Librarian*
Westchester Library System
570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
Elmsford, NY 10523
lstratton at wlsmail.org


On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 2:29 PM Tiffany Little <tlittle at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> Thanks, that helps! I went digging, and found that it looks like the Dojo
> interface is just culling a list of years based on the funds that are
> accessible to the logged-in user. And it looks like the "year" field on
> acq.fund is just text, basically--it doesn't tie into acq.fiscal_year at
> all. I don't really get the point of acq.fiscal_year, if that's the case...?
>
> In any event, I can now confirm your bug! I'm going to open a follow up
> one; IMO, funds should have to link to an entry in acq.fiscal_year.
> Otherwise I'm not sure what purpose it would serve. There is a bug that
> fiscal years need to have an interface--
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1956510
>
> Thanks for opening that, Lindsay! I'm going to confirm and also mark it to
> High Importance.
>
> Tiffany
>
> Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions
>
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> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 2:16 PM Lindsay Stratton <lstratton at wlsmail.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tiffany,
>>
>> We found this issue in production, when our catalogers attempted to
>> upload MARC records and got the error that the fund, year = 2022, does not
>> exist.  All I see in the MARC uploader is the current year (2023). Our
>> Evergreen is hosted, so I don't have access to direct database edits; and
>> there does not appear to be any client interface for creating fiscal year
>> entries, unless I am missing something. We've been using ACQ for the past
>> few years with no established fiscal years so this was particularly
>> unexpected.
>>
>> Lindsay
>>
>> *Lindsay Stratton*
>> *Systems Librarian*
>> Westchester Library System
>> 570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
>> Elmsford, NY 10523
>> lstratton at wlsmail.org
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 1:39 PM Tiffany Little <
>> tlittle at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lindsay,
>>>
>>> For the new one in 3.10, are you seeing that same bug when you're using
>>> a production dataset? The Concerto dataset doesn't have anything in the
>>> acq.fiscal_year table, so it just defaults to the current calendar year. If
>>> you insert some rows into acq.fiscal_year, they show up for me in the
>>> dropdown.
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Tiffany
>>>
>>> Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions
>>>
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>>> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:02 PM Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-acq <
>>> evergreen-acq at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to bring up a couple of bug reports related to fiscal year:
>>>>
>>>>    - Acq Wishlist --> Fiscal Year setting that allows the library to
>>>>    define and run concurrently different fiscal year calendars -
>>>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1486213
>>>>    <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1486213>
>>>>    - ACQ support non-calendar fiscal year  -
>>>>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1962622
>>>>
>>>> And a brand new one discovered with 3.10:
>>>>
>>>>    - Load MARC Order Records screen Fiscal Year field only accepts
>>>>    current year - https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/2021992
>>>>
>>>> This last one is a major issue for libraries with non-calendar fiscal
>>>> years, requiring the use of the legacy MARC Order Records interface in
>>>> order to import records when the FY associated with the funds does not
>>>> match the "default" (current calendar) year.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lindsay
>>>>
>>>> *Lindsay Stratton*
>>>> *Systems Librarian*
>>>> Westchester Library System
>>>> 570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
>>>> Elmsford, NY 10523
>>>> lstratton at wlsmail.org
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