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Hello,<br>
<br>
The Acquisitions Interest Group decided at the Evergreen Conference
in April to try a new form of member engagement. Rather than
holding quarterly meetings on irc each month an acquisitions bug
will be featured in an email to this list. This will bring more
exposure to some of the acquisitions bugs that have a large impact
on acquisitions libraries and their workflows and allow acquisitions
staff to engage as time permits, rather than at a specified time.<br>
<br>
Get involved by testing your system for the bug, indicating on
Launchpad if you’re affected by the bug, and commenting on Launchpad
or through the list if you have further information about the bug or
suggestions about what you’d like to see in a fix.<br>
<br>
Have a bug you’d like to see featured as an Acquisitions Bug of the
Month? Please email a link to the launchpad bug # to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jennifer.pringle@bc.libraries.coop">jennifer.pringle@bc.libraries.coop</a>.<br>
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<h1>September Acquisitions Bug of the Month</h1>
<br>
Bug - ACQ: Allocate to Fund drop down menu (in Funding Source) Not
Following Precedents Set by Other Fund Menus
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1175293">https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1175293</a><br>
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<h3>Description of Bug</h3>
In the Funding Source details page (Admin -> Acquisitions ->
Funding Sources and then click on the name of the funding source)
there is a drop down menu under "Create Allocation". This drop down
menu lists all of the funds available to the user to allocate money
to.<br>
<br>
There are currently two problems with this drop down menu:<br>
<br>
1. The year is not displayed beside the fund code in brackets.<br>
<br>
2. Funds that have been set to Active = FALSE appear in this menu.<br>
<br>
These two problems mean that after funds have been propagated for a
new fiscal year the user cannot distinguish between funds from the
previous and current fiscal years as the same codes are used. For
example, a library that has three fiscal years in Evergreen will
have the code AF display three times in this drop down menu for
their Adult Fiction funds.<br>
<br>
The current workaround for this is to allocate credit from within
the Fund details page rather than the Funding Source details page.
However, when users go through the Funding Source details page and
select the wrong fund the only way to correct the problem is to
delete the allocation from the database.<br>
<br>
This problem becomes apparent after a library has propagated their
funds and goes into allocate money to those funds for their new
fiscal year.<br>
<h3>Evergreen Version(s)</h3>
EG 2.0+<br>
<h3>Desired Resolution / Fix</h3>
This dropdown menu should:<br>
<br>
1. Display the year in brackets beside each fund code (as is seen
throughout the acquisitions module).<br>
<br>
2. Not display funds that have been set to Active = FALSE. (Users
can activate funds to allocate money to them and then deactivate
them if they do not want the fund to be used yet.)<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
Christine<br>
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Christine Burns
Co-op Support
BC Libraries Cooperative
Ph: 1-888-848-9250
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bc.libraries.coop">https://bc.libraries.coop</a></pre>
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