[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

I'm afraid I don't personally have an answer Repke's or Tim's question 
about MFHD import, however I may have information that will help Kathy.

Kathy,

Starting from a record in the catalog, try clicking Actions for this 
Record -> Alternate Serials Control.  The only big omission from this 
interface versus the one you've been trying is that this one has no real 
support for binding serial items into larger units (as might be done to 
academic journals).

 From there, you should have a chance to create a new subscription. 
After creating a subscription, click the the blue link you see in the ID 
column to start editing the details (distributions, stream, 
caption/pattern and issuances) of the subscription, proceeding in a 
left-to-right fashion across the tabs.

When you get to issuances, you'll have to create at least one manual 
issuance before Generate Predictions can work.

If you can get through it and get generate predictions to work, the 
batch receive interface or the Items tab under "Serials Control View" 
should equally make receiving possible.

I realize the four paragraphs above hardly constitute meaningful 
documentation, but a walkthrough-style document or screen video for the 
"alternate serials control" interfaces may be available soon.

Hope this helps!

Lebbeous


Tim Spindler wrote:
> 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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> Tim Spindler
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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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