[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Dan Wells]

Hello Kathy,

Thank you very much for this report. I am probably wrong, but I think this might be the first report from anyone using these interfaces outside of myself and the folks at Equinox, and it is something I have really been hoping for. It is so easy when testing one's own code to make many assumptions, and some errors, once avoided, never resurface.

This probably boils down to some small oversight on my part, but I'll get to the bottom of it first thing Monday and let you know what I find.

Sincerely,
Dan

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Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst  dbw2 at calvin.edu
Hekman Library at Calvin College
616.526.7133
>>> "Kathy Lussier" 11/05/10 11:18 AM >>> 
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 and can't get to the 
point where I can successfully receive an issue. I'm not sure if I'm doing 
things incorrectly, if the problems I've run across are for areas that are 
still being worked on, or if they are bugs I should be submitting. 

I have created templates using the copy templates editor, but when I create 
a distribution, this template is not populating the template dropdown menus. 
After I save the distribution, I can go into the database to associate the 
distrubtion with my template, but I'm wondering if anyone has had success 
identifying the template in the UI. Also, nothing appears in the dropdown 
menus for call numbers, and I'm not sure how to add one. 

Once I create the distribution, I can successfully create a caption/pattern 
and the first issuance using the sample pattern codes and holdings code 
provided in the notes. When I make predictions for the subscription, I 
receive a message similar to the one in the attached image on each item for 
which I am creating a prediction. However, despite these popup boxes, the 
system does create the issuances after completing this process. 

I then head over to the items tab for the record, click on one of the items, 
and then click the receive button to try to receive an issue. The system 
returns an error message and is unable to receive the item. I suspect some 
of the problems I came across earlier in the process may be responsible for 
the fact that I can't receive an issue. Has anyone successfully received an 
item in serials? 

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! 

Kathy Lussier 

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