Hi all, Several of our libraries are looking forward to using the "Loading MARC Order Records" function in Evergreen as it provides a fast and easy way to get their orders into the system. However, they've found that they need to develop several workarounds to load these records. After looking closely at the process over the past week, I have identified three issues, which I consider to be bugs, that, if fixed, could greatly improve this workflow. All three bugs have been submitted to Launchpad, but I wanted to bring attention to them here to see if there might be some easy fixes for these problems.
Uploaded Purchase Orders can't be activated https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/865552 - It looks like the wrong database values are being inserted when the "Create Purchase Order" and the "Activate Purchase Order" checkboxes are selected. If this could be fixed and the correct values were inserted, it would be a big timesaver since staff could skip the step of adding these titles to a selection list. Order record loads fail when there is a null value in a holdings subfield https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/924952 - If a library includes a subfield for notes in the setup for a provider, it is likely that this subfield will often be null. However, this null field leads to a failed import. I tried a similar upload in Vandelay and found that it does support null subfields, so I'm guessing the acquisitions error is a bug rather than expected behavior. Order record loads fail when copy locations are owned by OUs https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/924930 - Some of our multibranch libraries find they cannot load order records for multiple branches because the copy locations are owned by the branch, not the system. We're looking at a couple of workarounds for this (removing copy locations entirely from the order and adding them at a later step is one of them), but we would love to be able to upload these records regardless of who owns a particular copy location. Thanks! Kathy ------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) [email protected] IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
