https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25395
--- Comment #3 from Myka Kennedy Stephens <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #2) > Sorry, missed you had already mentioned serials on first glance! It's okay, Katrin! I filed this bug because there are some problems that the solution for bug 13420 did not address. Namely, that enumchron still sorts alphabetically (I'm guessing this is what is happening) when the serial.publisheddate does not exist. Items will only have a value for serial.publisheddate if they have been derived through the serials receiving process. Serial items that are brought over from a migration or added through other manner of acquisition, and also multi-volume sets that extend beyond nine volumes are not going to have a serial.publisheddate value and are not going to sort correctly without extra measures taken in the cataloging process. How we address it in our library's catalog is by adding an extra 0 to the beginning of the volume number so that they sort in the correct order. An item with enumchron=v.09 will appear before an item with enumchron=v.10. This was a lot of work to add these 0's when we migrated to Koha. What will be truly annoying is when a serial makes the shift from volume 99 to volume 100. In such an event, we'd be faced with going back and adding an additional 0 to every item's enumchron for that serial! Yes, I see that a sophisticated algorithm is likely going to be needed. I also thought about the possibility of splitting enumchron into two fields: one for enumeration and one for chronology so that a similar solution that was used for bug 13420 could be tried. The problem with that is that every Koha library would likely be facing a data clean-up project to split the data from the enumchron into the two fields. There's likely no easy answer. Yet, we should not lose sight of the problem. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
