[Evergreen-acq] EDI Ordering with Midwest Tape

[Morgan, Christine]

Thanks so much Tiffany!  This looks promising.  I'll let you know how it
works out.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM Tiffany Little <tlittle at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> 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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Christine Morgan
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Danvers, Massachusetts
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