[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Development Idea: Set parts Order

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

Hi Tim,

In general ordered parts and parts display in the TPAC would be a very good
thing, I'm sure.  I am curious, though, about parts' relationship to
serials.

How are you making your received serials issues into parts?  I'm not
familiar with any way that Evergreen would do this for you without special
effort. Maybe through Holdings Maintenance or some kind of scripted
operation?

Also, have you considered turning on the grouped serials display, which is
at least more sensible than the default copy display?  See the second and
third screenshots of this document:
http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.3/_displaying_issues_in_the_opac.html for
any example of what that would look like.

Regards,

Lebbeous


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tim Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org> wrote:

> C/W MARS is looking at potential development on this function and is
> looking for community comment.
>
> *Idea:*  Ability to set parts order
>
> *
> *
>
> *Description:*  Parts are currently appearing in no real discernible
> order.   We would like to be able to define the order in which they
> appear.
>
> *
> *
>
> *Expected Functionality*
>
> ·         From the bibliographic record, provide a menu option on the
> manage parts screen of actions for this record to set the order of parts on
> this screen.
>
> ·         A default sort order will be defined by an alpha sort of the
> label_sortkey in the monograph_part table.
>
> ·         Parts will display on holdings in the TPAC and holdings
> maintenance in the order defined through the manage parts screen.  This
> sort order will occur after sorting by organizational unit, prefix, call
> number,  and suffix.
>
> *Use Cases *
>
> A  cataloger splits up a title “My Movie Set” into a 12 disk with its own
> part assigned.   The parts include and should display in the following
> order.
>
>  ·         Disk 1
>
> ·         Disk 2
>
> ·         Disk 3
>
> ·         ...
>
> ·         Disk 8
>
> ·         Disk 9
>
> ·         Disk 10
>
> ·         Disk 11
>
> ·         Disk 12
>
>  Similarly, we have Woman’s Day with parts for each issue received as
> well as a copy record for each issue that is holdable and would like them
> to display in date order:
>
> ·         JAN 2013
>
> ·         FEB 2013
>
> ·         MAR 2013
>
> See also Field & Stream (
> https://bark.cwmars.org/eg/opac/record/140662?fi%3Aitem_type=;query=field%20and%20stream;qtype=jtitle;locg=32;)
> as an example of how it is now.
>
>
> --
>
> Tim Spindler
>
> Manager of Library Applications
>
> tspindler at cwmars.org
>
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>
>
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>
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>
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>
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