[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] acquisitions -- cancel reasons

[Bill Erickson]

Hi Shasta,

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:51:43AM -0500, Shasta Brewer wrote:
>    We are going through the preliminary tasks to implement acquisitions
>    for our next fiscal year which starts in July.  I would like to thank
>    the people responsible for the documentation for administrators and
>    staff as to how acquisitions works.  It seems to be very thorough and
>    easy to follow.  Of course I have a question.  We have the defaults
>    loaded for cancel reasons.  I am accustomed to having a handful of
>    reasons to cancel a title on order which include osi (out of stock
>    indefinitely), os (out of stock), op (out of print), ppi (publication
>    postponed indefinitely), can (cancelled), etc.  When I looked at the
>    defaults I got a chuckle ---airline attendants--really??? Does anyone
>    know where this list came from (not a criticism, I'm just curious)?
>    Have other libraries used it or is it just easier to delete the entire
>    list and start over? What do other libraries use for cancel reasons?
>    Any advice that people can give which is not included in the
>    documentation would be greatly appreciated. We are a consortium (SC
>    LENDS) on release 2.1.1.  Each of our 15 library systems does their own
>    acquisitions for their libraries.

The list comes from the EDI specification.  At the time, it was not clear
what cancel causes Evergreen would use, but we have a better grasp of that
now.  Here's the list actually used by Evergreen:

1,  'invalid_isbn', 'ISBN is unrecognizable'
2,  'postpone', 'Title has been postponed'
3,  'delivered_but_lost',    'Delivered but not received; presumed lost'

Anything with an ID < 2000 is custom and/or not part of the EDI spec
and should be kept.

1002,  'Deleted',   'The information is to be or has been deleted.'
1003,  'Changed',   'The information is to be or has been changed.'
1004,  'No action',                  'This line item is not affected by the actual message.'
1005,  'Accepted without amendment', 'This line item is entirely accepted by the seller.'
1010,  'Not found',   'This line item is not found in the referenced message.'
1211, 'Split quantity', 'Part of the whole quantity.'
1221, 'Ordered quantity', '[6024] The quantity which has been ordered.'
1246, 'Pieces delivered', 'Number of pieces actually received at the final destination.'
1283, 'Backorder quantity', 'The quantity of goods that is on back-order.'

I have been planning for some time to open an LP ticket to clear the
rest of the cancel reasons out.  I'll be taking care of that shortly,
hopefully before 2.2.

Hope this helps.

-b

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