Specifically we are looking at exporting Marc with 853, 863 , etc and importing into Evergreen. If I understand serials module correctly, it builds prediction schedule from mtgs publication pattern.
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 6, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Dan Scott <d...@coffeecode.net> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Mike Rylander wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Tim Spindler <tjspind...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Regarding the command line and the MFHD, will/does Vandelay support >>> importing the MFHD fields?� We are hoping this will be our path to >>> migrating >>> serials data when we go live. >>> >> >> There is, indeed, such a command line tool. The indomitable Dan Scott >> added Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2sre.pl a while back for the >> purpose of priming MFHD records. It requires that you have the >> internal ID of your Evergreen bib records embedded in the MFHD records >> that link to said. Beyond that restriction, you simply point it at >> your MFHD MARC and it will generate a file full of 'sre' records >> suitable for loading with pg_loader, just like 'bre' and 'are' >> records. > > Aw, that's nice of you Mike, but I think the question was more about the > new serials support (check-in UIs and circulating serials) and less > about the non-circulating serials MFHD-based support. If I read Tim and > Repke's questions right, they're looking for a way to populate the new > serials tables with legacy MFHD data. And I'm not sure there currently > is a way to get there from here, where "here" = serial.record_entry or > your previous ILS's export of MFHD records.