[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

On 11/17/2010 11:23 AM, Joke Zwaan wrote:
> 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 :

Perhaps I can help with these.

> 1.	In  the popup screen New Subscription is a field Expected date offset : what date is required here (interval, start subscription ?)

You can leave this field blank, but if you want to use it, it takes an 
interval, and the intent is to specify the difference between issues' 
nominal publishing date and the date on which you actually expect to 
receive copies.

If something is published weekly on Mondays, but you typically receive 
your copies the preceding Friday, you might enter "-3 days" (without the 
quotation marks).

> 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??)

The date published field under issuance should get the date on which the 
issuance you're editing was published (not the whole subscription's 
start date).  If you're providing one "manual" issue before predicting 
more issue automatically, you want this to be the date of the last issue 
you have _before_ you want prediction to start.

So if you have a weekly periodical and you want predictions to be 
generated starting on Sep 1, you would enter the publication date (and 
holding code information) for your August 25 issue.

> 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?
>

At this time you can only use the patterns you created for that specific 
subscription.  This *may* change, but that might take some design 
changes to the internals.  As a workaround to "re-use" patterns, you can 
copy and paste to and from the "pattern code" field in the "Caption and 
Pattern" tab.  That way at least you don't have to go through the wizard 
again every time.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
-- 
Lebbeous