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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

I just tried creating a serial subscription in the serial control view and
came across a situation similar to the one Marjolein identified.

In his response, Lebbeous said:

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.

However, when I am setting up a distribution in the Serial Control View, I
am unable to enter a call number. It appears as if there is an empty
dropdown menu where I would select a call number, but I'm not sure where it
is pulling the data from. How do I add a call number to the distribution?

BTW - I'm having much more success with this view now than I did the first
time I tested it a couple of months ago. The call number appears to be my
only stumbling block at the moment. Thanks to Dan and Lebbeous for all of
your work on serials.

Kathy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org 
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] 
> On Behalf Of Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:23 AM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Item receiving in serial 
> control view 2.0beta 5
> 
> 
> 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
>