Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Questions about serials holdings not showing in OPAC

[John Craig]

Dan Wells wrote: Hello John, There are two places where one can put textual holding information and have it show up in the OPAC. The first, as suggested by Dan Scott in IRC, is by using fields 86[678] in a MFHD record in the serial.record_entry table's 'marc' column. This is tried-and-true, and has been in use at several sites (including my own) for several years. If textual holdings are your primary focus, this is a good solution. The second place where textual holdings can come from are the *_summary tables you have currently populated. These textual_holdings columns were initially designed as a simple way supplement any generated holdings in the absence of a MFHD record. Later on, the 'show_generated' option was added at the DB-level for finer-grained control of the display, but this option is not actually implemented (and *should* not be showing up in any of the serials interfaces at this point). In your situation, since the generated_coverage columns are blank, this only difference would be one of labeling in any case. I have tested something similar to the setup you have described, and so far my holdings are showing up as expected. Because these summaries are designed to work in conjunction with the in-DB serials model, you do need to have at least a barebones completed structure of Bib record->Subscription->Distribution->Summary, as each provides a piece of the puzzle (i.e. which records to display holdings for, then which library the holdings belong to). Does that help? It does indeed. There must be something wrong with my data somewhere as I was attempting to follow the arrangements described. I think perhaps somehow some of the rows just didn't get into the right table. That would likely explain things. John Thanks, Dan