Kathy & Bill, Thanks so much for your speedy responses. I'll try not to rely too much on my sorry memory in the future - Kathy's pointer to the documentation should be the answer to what I was looking for. Some days I just need a shove in the right direction - thanks for taking the time and for being willing to provide it. Leslie
From: Open-ils-general [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holding Subfields Hi Leslie, Although Acquisitions related questions tend to not get answered, I'm putting this out here anyway in hope of hooking someone..... While this was indeed the case a few years ago when acquisitions was new and few sites were using it, I can't say that this a problem anymore. There are many Evergreen sites using acquisitions now, and I think we've gotten much better as a community at answering these questions. In addition to what Bill noted in his email, I'll add that we had libraries that had requested that the PO Name be included in EDI messages. If this is something your libraries need, it's done through the Attribute Definitions tab. There are some instructions for doing so at http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.7/_ordering.html - you'll need to look at step 4 of preparing for record order loading. In addition to following those steps, your PO JEDI template needs to be configured to send the PO Name. I believe it's configured by default to send it to Ingram. Kathy On 01/27/2015 02:00 PM, Bill Erickson wrote: Hi Leslie, Purchase order IDs and lineitem IDs are included in EDI messages by default. That's the primary mechanism for synchronizing data between Evergreen and the vendor. Item (copy) IDs are not included by default, but can be with a change to the EDI template. What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? -b On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:30 PM, St. John, Leslie < [email protected] > wrote: Although Acquisitions related questions tend to not get answered, I'm putting this out here anyway in hope of hooking someone..... On the advice of several Acquisitions users to include line item id's and/or purchase order id's in EDI communications with vendors we created a consortial standard for our Holdings Subfields and now need to add a couple more fields to the holdings subfields list of name values that is used to set up this information in the Provider record. It seems as if this is turning into an project that shouldn't be so complicated. If you are using Acquisitions, how are you transmitting the line item id or PO id back and forth between the library and vendor? and if you had to add this to the holdings subfields mapping how did you do it? Please and thanks to anyone willing to take the time to answer. Leslie -- Leslie St. John PINES Consultant Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345-4304 [email protected] -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 [email protected] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -- Leslie St. John PINES Consultant Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345-4304 [email protected]
