[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thinking about receiving

[Bill Erickson]

On Sunday 27 July 2008 11:19 Mike Rylander wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 July 2008 8:54 David J. Fiander wrote:

[snip]

> >>
> >> The primary field on the receiving screen is an ISBN input field. The
> >> staff scan the ISBN barcode on each item, which pulls up the
> >> corresponding JUB.
> >
> > This seems like a reasonable approach.  I guess this screen will also
> > have a box for ISSN, etc.
>
> Learning/stealing from Vandelay, we could add an identifier boolean to
> acq.lineitem_attr_definition, and simply search all of these attrs as
> an exact-match from a single search box.  Add ISBN, ISSN, UPC, po
> number (as a vendor attribute), ASN id, etc.  We'd also want to search
> the barcode on lineitem_detail for detecting shelf-ready items.


I like this approach.  It will certainly make the interface more streamlined.  

-b

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