[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Joke Zwaan]

Dear Kathy,

As Repke already mentioned in his mail of Nov 5th 2010, here at the IISH  we also have been busy with the serials in 2.0Alpha4.
With the little 'walk through' from Lebbeous, using the Alternate Serials Control, we made a start with the patterns and issuances, but when we try 'generate predictions' we get an error message. We will keep on testing of course, but we also hope that you, or somebody else from the community, can help us.
Here are a few examples of the things we don't know how to deal with :
1.	In  the popup screen New Subscription is a field Expected date offset : what date is required here (interval, start subscription ?)
2.	Popup screen Issuance, New Issuance, the 'label' field: is that a call number ; and the 'date published' field: what kind of date does the system wants (date start subscription, date published number??)
3. The pattern you make gets a number. Is it possible to use that pattern (through the number) for another periodical, and if so where can we find the patterns  we already made in the system?

Maybe we can figure out a way of how to help each other. We do have a wiki here in which we describe our test results but that is all in the Dutch language of course.

Thank you all in advance for your appreciated reactions. 

Joke Zwaan
Assistent Librarian
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
http://www.iisg.nl
Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
jzw at iisg.nl
tel. 020-6685866




-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:19 PM
To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

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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