[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6 RC1 - MFHD editing

[Duimovich, George]

Yes, it's pretty insane..

Talking to several users of the big 3, I've gotten the sense that if you're a long time customer - and you don't have many of these add-ons already purchased from the first contract, then you're on the purchase train every time you need to do something new. But if you're a new customer and if the vendor wants to sweeten the deal especially now with increased competition, then you'll get thrown into your contract a bunch of "add ons" that other similar customers have to pay. That's another reason for so much of the "confidentiality" requirements in these deals: nobody is supposed to know what constitutes a "base ILS" and what the other library is paying for the base toolbox.

So new customers can get a sweet full package deal (depending...), and the older ones get to keep buying pieces to maintain basic functionality...

george

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of David Fiander
Sent: September 17, 2009 11:52
To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6 RC1 - MFHD editing

George, thank you very much for letting us know about MFHD export from III. This is something that I've wondered about.

- David

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Duimovich, George <George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> Nice to see the MFHD support in 1.6!
>
> I will soon need to demo the MFHD support for our phase II libraries, 
> and I'd like to confirm what we could anticipate as the the expected 
> MFHD editing functionality in the first production cut of version 1.6.
> Currently, we access MFHD via OPAC View > Add MFHD > (then click 
> previous/next to refresh) > Edit Holdings [then get 404 error].
>
> Could we expect to see Add/Edit MFHD somewhere under > Actions for 
> this Record > etc. Are there any additional tweaks going to be made to 
> these steps in production 1.6 or is it 'as is' expected for the 1.6 release?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George Duimovich
> NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
>
> BTW, our phase II migrations are on a III system --- MFHD export is an 
> "additional add on" that has to be purchased -- $2700K+ product << 
> that is bad, very bad lol