[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Dan Scott]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Mike Rylander wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Tim Spindler <tjspindler at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> 
> There is, indeed, such a command line tool.  The indomitable Dan Scott
> added Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2sre.pl a while back for the
> purpose of priming MFHD records.  It requires that you have the
> internal ID of your Evergreen bib records embedded in the MFHD records
> that link to said.  Beyond that restriction, you simply point it at
> your MFHD MARC and it will generate a file full of 'sre' records
> suitable for loading with pg_loader, just like 'bre' and 'are'
> records.

Aw, that's nice of you Mike, but I think the question was more about the
new serials support (check-in UIs and circulating serials) and less
about the non-circulating serials MFHD-based support. If I read Tim and
Repke's questions right, they're looking for a way to populate the new
serials tables with legacy MFHD data. And I'm not sure there currently
is a way to get there from here, where "here" = serial.record_entry or
your previous ILS's export of MFHD records.