[Evergreen-acq] EDI Ordering with Midwest Tape

[Tiffany Little]

Hi Christine,

I have never looked at this at all before, so I can't make any claim
whether it would work or not. Having said that, here's something to explore.

Looking at EDIWriter.pm, it looks like the first thing it looks for to use
as an identifier is if the EDI Attribute Set has
LINEITEM_IDENT_VENDOR_NUMBER enabled. If it does, then it looks to see "if
we have a vendor-specific lineitem identifier value". That led me to poking
around in the provider profile, and there *is* a tab for Attribute
Definitions. Filling out those fields looks kind of esoteric, so I went and
looked at Acquisitions>Line Item Marc Attribute Definitions. It doesn't
look like it's in stock EG, but in PINES we already had one set with these
values:

[image: image.png]

When you're setting it up in the Midwest provider profile, you want to set
it to be Is Identifier=Yes.

Good luck! I'd be interested in hearing how your testing goes, if you're
willing to report back.

Tiffany



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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM Morgan, Christine via Evergreen-acq <
evergreen-acq at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to send the 028$a in the EDI ORDERS
> message?  This is the identifier that Midwest prefers.  Currently we send
> either the 020, 024 or 035 but, according to Midwest, the turnaround time
> is slower.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Christine
>
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> Christine Morgan
> Database Support Analyst
> North of Boston Library Exchange, Inc.
> Danvers, Massachusetts
> cmorgan at noblenet.org
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