[Evergreen-catalogers] Load MARC Order Record

[Donald Butterworth]

Thanks for this starting point Kathy. I am the one that does these types of
imports, and theoretically I have full administrative permissions for
everything. When we first started using Acquisitions, we encountered this
kind of behavior. Then, at some point, after an upgrade I think, everything
started working smoothly, but down the line trouble started up again. We
just moved to 2.12.6 last week and I had hoped that might solve the
problem. Alas, no. I'll involve our IT people now. Hopefully they can
figure out what's missing.

One question about the 2.12.6 release, is it supposed to included the full
featured 3.0 Webby version? I'm asking because there seems to be some
missing features that are described in the 3.0 documentation, that aren't
showing up.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>
wrote:

> Hi Don,
>
>  This sounds similar to a problem we encountered when first using
> acquisitions a few years ago. In our case, the records would upload as
> expected and we had not trouble using merge profiles or generating the copy
> record. However, every upload on one system had a hanging progress bar and
> the View Purchase Order and other links never appeared.
>
> We later realized that we were lacking a permission on our acquisitions
> accounts that allowed the upload to go as smoothly as it should. The
> CREATE_BIB_IMPORT_QUEUE was one permission we were missing (this discover
> resulted in my filing https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1325637),
> but I think there were others. Since your experience sounds a little
> different than what we experienced, it might be a different permission, but
> I would start with some of the permissions related to batch importing to
> see if your acquisitions folks have all the permissions they need.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Kathy
>
> On 10/19/2017 11:02 AM, Donald Butterworth wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We use the Load MARC Order Record feature 99.9% of the time to create a
> purchase orders. We create MARC files that includes a 962 field in each bib
> record, which is what we use to supply copy record data and order data.
>
> When we load a file, and Evergreen doesn't encounter a matching bib
> record, all goes smoothly. The PO gets generated and the copy records get
> created automatically.
>
> However ... if Evergreen does encounter a matching bib record, the
> progress bar continues to display and the View Purchase Order link never
> appears. Also, from the point in the import process where Evergreen
> encounters the matching bib record, the copy records fail to create.
>
> What we want is for the incoming bib record to overlay the existing bib
> record and create the copy record. Also, of course, we want the PO creation
> to complete, and the View Purchase Order link to appear.
>
> What checkbox are we missing, or is this a bug?
>
> Don
>
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Don Butterworth
Collection Management Librarian /
Faculty Associate
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu
(859) 858-2227
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