[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Item receiving in serial control view 2.0 beta 5

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:04:12 +0100, Marjolein Kremer <mkr at iisg.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We created a serial subscription in the Alternate Serial Control
interface.
> It all went well until we tried to receive items using Serial control
view.
> The following error message appears:
> 
> FIXME: if you encounter this alert, please inform your IT/ILS helpdesk
> staff or your friendly Evergreen developers. Tue Jan 04 2011 15:01:54 GMT
> +0.100 cmd_receive_items failed! SERIAL_DISTRIBUTION_HAS_NO_CALL_NUMBER
> Units cannot be created for the given item because its associated
> distribution does not have a call number.
> How can we solve this problem?

Hello Marjolein,

The Alternate Serial Control interface is conceptually tied to the Batch
Receive interface by certain assumptions shared by each.  The Batch Receive
interface may fare better in receiving items set up in the Alternate Serial
Control than the the regular Serial Control view's receiving tab.

Right now, the main disparity in the assumptions of each set of interfaces
is that in Alternate Serial Control and Batch Receive, call numbers aren't
applied until receive time, and then only if copy-equivalent (read
"barcoded") units are created by user choice.  In the Serial Control View's
model of things, a call number has to be applied to the distribution, and
items of all issuances that are predicted or created within that
distribution will share the same call number.

I hope that helps. Indeed, this is one of those areas where future work in
serials will hopefully give us a chance to reconcile differing serials
models so things can work more smoothly.

-- 
Lebbeous