[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials Prediction Question

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

The pattern wizard may not match what the underlying prediction code
can actually do in that case.  It's likely (but I haven't tested) that
the prediction code doesn't know how to make combination issues of
more than two units.

There might be a plausible workaround: you could have a combined issue
for 06/07, and an omitted issue for 08.  If that works, you would
probably still want to edit the "June/July" label by hand to read
"June/July/August" for the generated issues, but unless you subscribe
to a lot of publications using this or similar patterns, at least
there won't be many such issues to edit.

Hope this helps.

Lebbeous

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Kate Butler
<KateButler at rodgerslibrary.org> wrote:
> We recently went live with Evergreen (2.4) and I’ve been working on entering
> our periodical information into the serials module.
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> I’ve been running into a problem when I try to enter a pattern where three
> months or days are combined. (Such as June/July/August as a single issue.)
> The pattern wizard creates the code fine, but when you generate the
> predictions it combines the first two dates and gives the third its own
> issue.
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> It’s easy enough to work around this by omitting one of the three, but I
> wondered if there was another way to get this to work.
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> Ex pattern:
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> ["0","0","8","1","a","Vol. ","b","No.
> ","u","8","v","r","i","(year)","j","(month)","w","m","x","01","y","cm02/03","y","cm04/05","y","cm06/07/08"]
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> Kate Butler
>
> Technology Librarian
>
> Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH)
>
> http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/



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