Hi Joke, I had many of the same questions you raised in this e-mail, and I was glad to see Lebbeous' answers.
You mentioned receiving an error when you tried to generate predictions, which reminded me of a question I had when trying the alternate serials view. I don't know if it was the same error, but when I first started looking at the alternate serials view and tried to generate a prediction, I received an error message that said "Invalid parameters were encountered in a method. There are no streams to direct items. Can't predict." I then went to my distributions tab and noticed that I had 0 streams for the distribution. Once I created a stream, I was able to generate predictions. However, I'm not quite sure what a stream is. Is a stream just used for routing serials or is there another purpose? If a stream is primarily used for routing, is it a requirement that you set up routing for a serial before you can generate predictions? We have libraries that do not need to route serials. Thanks! Kathy ------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier > -----Original Message----- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] > On Behalf Of Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:11 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4 > > On 11/17/2010 11:23 AM, Joke Zwaan wrote: > > Dear Kathy, > > > > As Repke already mentioned in his mail of Nov 5th 2010, > here at the IISH we also have been busy with the serials in > 2.0Alpha4. > > With the little 'walk through' from Lebbeous, using the > Alternate Serials Control, we made a start with the patterns > and issuances, but when we try 'generate predictions' we get > an error message. We will keep on testing of course, but we > also hope that you, or somebody else from the community, can help us. > > Here are a few examples of the things we don't know how to > deal with : > > Perhaps I can help with these. > > > 1. In the popup screen New Subscription is a field > Expected date offset : what date is required here (interval, > start subscription ?) > > You can leave this field blank, but if you want to use it, it > takes an interval, and the intent is to specify the > difference between issues' > nominal publishing date and the date on which you actually > expect to receive copies. > > If something is published weekly on Mondays, but you > typically receive your copies the preceding Friday, you might > enter "-3 days" (without the quotation marks). > > > 2. Popup screen Issuance, New Issuance, the 'label' field: > is that a call number ; and the 'date published' field: what > kind of date does the system wants (date start subscription, > date published number??) > > The date published field under issuance should get the date > on which the issuance you're editing was published (not the > whole subscription's start date). If you're providing one > "manual" issue before predicting more issue automatically, > you want this to be the date of the last issue you have > _before_ you want prediction to start. > > So if you have a weekly periodical and you want predictions > to be generated starting on Sep 1, you would enter the > publication date (and holding code information) for your > August 25 issue. > > > 3. The pattern you make gets a number. Is it possible to > use that pattern (through the number) for another periodical, > and if so where can we find the patterns we already made in > the system? > > > > At this time you can only use the patterns you created for > that specific subscription. This *may* change, but that > might take some design changes to the internals. As a > workaround to "re-use" patterns, you can copy and paste to > and from the "pattern code" field in the "Caption and > Pattern" tab. That way at least you don't have to go through > the wizard again every time. > > Hope this helps! > > Regards, > -- > Lebbeous >