[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Tim Spindler]

Regarding the command line and the MFHD, will/does Vandelay support
importing the MFHD fields?  We are hoping this will be our path to migrating
serials data when we go live.

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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Repke de Vries <repke at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Dear Kathy
>
> here at IISH ( http://www.iisg.nl) a team of testers has been sinking its
> teeth in alpha4 Serials Management as well - even without the help of the
> release notes you are mentioning: thanks for the pointer !!
>
> Like you we hit stumbling blocks and will contact you off list the coming
> Monday [1] if  we can work together getting a basic grip on functionality:
> right now it is complete trial and error here in Amsterdam.  This
> "documentation would help testing would help feedback to the [Serials,
> Acquisition] developers" issue was also raised at the EG IRC Developers
> meeting last Tuesday.
>
> Right now I wish to bring up a related issue and would like to ask Dan
> Wells or Lebbeous (sorry: don't know your first name) the following:
>
> is there a command line MFHD importing script yet that will populate all
> the Serials Management related database tables ?
>
> That would fast track functionality testing and down the road I guess your
> library Dan (Wells) would need to import legacy MFHD data just as much as
> IISH needs to do so for that part of our collection where the "raw MFHD
> record editing" [2] approach is not enough.
>
> Thanks, Repke Eduard de Vries, IISH
>
> [1] also impressed with your work here Kathy:
> http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2039  (to the extent that we have access)
> [2] we are well aware of Dan Scott's work here:
> http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/tests/datasets/README ;
> works fine but not for all of our serials collection
>
> Op 5-nov-2010, om 16:19 heeft Kathy Lussier het volgende geschreven:
>
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> I've been digging into serials on a 2.0 alpha4 installation by following
>> the
>> notes at
>>
>> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:serials:release_notes:initial_t
>> runk_merge, but I've run into various stumbling blocks
>>
>


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