<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, Tiffany!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, after I sent my email to this list, and Tiffany took the time to write that helpful response, the vendor got back to me with a pretty good workaround.  Their platform is sending the platform and license information over in MARC records, in a subfield that we have mapped to the "Collection Code" field that we never use.  I then modified our EDI Attributes to send over the collection code with our EDI orders.  And we're using the "Activate without Loading Items" button to make sure we don't end up with a bunch of unnecessary items in our catalog.</div><div><br></div><div>The nice thing is that it keeps our workflow for this vendor pretty consistent across formats. :-D</div><div><br></div><div>  -Jane<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:29 AM Tiffany Little <<a href="mailto:tlittle@georgialibraries.org">tlittle@georgialibraries.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Jane,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I can say that for PINES libraries, we don't transmit ebook orders via EDI. Probably what I would do in this case is set up another provider profile, something like Vendor_ebooks maybe, so that our EDI orders don't mix at all with ebook ordering (which I would not set up with EDI). But I'd probably be happiest with another profile so (a) I can always immediately distinguish which orders were ebook and which were not, and (b) if those are two different accounts with the vendor I like specifying that with provider profiles. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">If they're one account, thennnn that's something different since you'll get EDI invoices for both physical book orders and ebook ones. At that point, I might take it to a discussion with the vendor about how they're invoicing you (making sure that they're separating out material type in invoices, since you don't want invoicing mixing ebook/physical books), and potentially separating out ebooks into another account number.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you don't want on-order records, and you don't want to receive them, I wouldn't put them through a lineitem at all. I would just do a blanket order (assuming you want to encumber the money ahead of time), and apply invoices against it. If you don't need to encumber the money ahead of time (you're okay waiting for invoices), I would cut out the PO entirely and just use direct charges on invoices. But having that Vendor_ebooks provider allows you to log those invoices not against your Vendor_books provider and keep them separate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">And then re: EDI, I would just order those through the vendor website so that you can specify those platform/license issues directly in their interface.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Others may have better suggestions, since after all that blather I really said that we don't do this. :) But that's my thought, fwiw.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tiffany</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="89"><col width="414"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:123pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:medium none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:75px;height:75px"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/8c2XlzLbIIC6nDoa4yqQ8MzA0npF4WXpUnhhoK_uTqralZtjqVXRwPgmRep3jGYP6q41Sb0ULXqxX-QppYTC8cQyIfBAdqzLBgqvcQwVczkqqiunlj0KIbvy-R3bp-E0mlhF0A4v" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="75" height="75"></span></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:h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ing this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>  -Jane<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jane Sandberg<br>Electronic Resources Librarian<br>Linn-Benton Community College<br><a href="mailto:sandbej@linnbenton.edu" target="_blank">sandbej@linnbenton.edu</a> / 541-917-4655<br><div>Pronouns: she/her/hers</div><div><br></div><div>Library instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lbcc_library/" target="_blank">@lbcc_library</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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