[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials Prediction - Quarterly

[Patrick, Irene]

We are new to Evergreen, and we are trying to set our serials up using serial control.  I have a quarterly, with seasons, where the calendar change occurs with the Winter issue.  So that Fall 2016 is followed by Winter 2017.  I have made multiple attempts at creating a prediction for this title, but no matter what I do, Evergreen insists on predicting the issues as Fall 2016, Winter 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2017, etc., when it should be Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, etc.

I've checked Launchpad to see if there were any reported bugs related to this problem and I could not find any.  I've also looked at the Evergreen wiki and Sitka sites for pattern suggestions, and I haven't found a solution there either, although I may have missed something.  In both of our former systems, the pattern for this was easy to set up, although neither system used the same method for creating patterns that Evergreen does.

There ought to be a way to do this, since it's a common pattern, but so far I haven't been able to figure it out in Evergreen.  We need to get it working, because we will have more serials like this.  Does anyone have a pattern that works for when the publication is quarterly with seasons and the year changes with the Winter issue instead of the Spring issue?

Here is one attempt I made.  I can't figure out why it doesn't work.  The volume number does correctly change with the Winter issue, but the year does not.  All suggestions welcome!

["0","0","8","1","a","v.","b","no.","u","4","v","c","i","(year)","j","(season)","w","q","x","24"]

Our former system also allowed us to alter predicted issues.  If Evergreen would let us do that, we could at least manually change the predicted issues to the correct information, but I can't find a way to do that either.  If there is a way to change individually predicted issues, please let us know.

Thanks!

[NC_State_Seal PMS 2955]Irene Patrick
Library & Information Management Systems Librarian
N.C. Government & Heritage Library
State Library of North Carolina
N.C. Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources
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