Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Evergreen Acquistions vs some other method

2015-11-05 Thread St. John, Leslie
Hi Sharon, We (I) empathize. Sincerely. It's not easy. We use all of it, or try. We've learned a lot and keep on learning. In our consortium we currently have three library systems using Acquisitions. The systems are different in size, budget, workflows and vendors. Each encounters different

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Load Catalog Record ID's question

2015-10-28 Thread St. John, Leslie
tested this issue on more recent versions. Jennifer Quoting "St. John, Leslie" <lstj...@georgialibraries.org>: > We have encountered a couple of limits on the Acquisitions > functionality Load Catalog Record ID's. First we can not load more > than 50 record id's, and

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Load Catalog Record ID's question

2015-10-27 Thread St. John, Leslie
We have encountered a couple of limits on the Acquisitions functionality Load Catalog Record ID's. First we can not load more than 50 record id's, and then only 25 will display. Therefore only 25 catalog record ID's can be loaded at a time. Do these limits generally replicate anyone's else's

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors

2015-08-20 Thread St. John, Leslie
Tina, Call Marin, she will and can help with the influx of messages, but you have to ask her. 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 404-235-7129

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors

2015-08-20 Thread St. John, Leslie
Message - From: St. John, Leslie lstj...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:01:03 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors Tina, Call Marin, she will and can help with the influx

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquistions development list from EG conference

2015-06-03 Thread St. John, Leslie
Rogan, For me, it is not so much that Evergreen isn't allowing reports its more that they are so hard to construct from the existing sources. Acq has a lot of tables and finding the one that meets your reporting needs is fairly daunting. So my wish would be for a couple of sources along the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions Interest Group Meeting Minutes

2015-06-03 Thread St. John, Leslie
Christine, Thanks for posting the minutes. I'm looking forward to a bit of lively discussion on the list and the August meeting. I need to keep learning. Leslie Leslie St. John PINES Consultant Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions - order record question

2015-04-29 Thread St. John, Leslie
. John, Leslie wrote: We have had trouble uploading vendor order record files with $ in the 020 |c and 022 |c. Up until this point each of our vendors has been able to accomodate our request for no $ in the upload files but now we have a vendor that can't accommodate our request and say

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holding Subfields

2015-01-27 Thread St. John, Leslie
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 lstj

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holding Subfields

2015-01-27 Thread St. John, Leslie
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 96, Issue 14

2014-06-13 Thread St. John, Leslie
Hi Michael and all, Although we are only in the testing phase I have discovered when uploading records using the Acquisitions Load MARC Order Records that default barcode prefix and call numbers are applied to copies when the line item is ordered. So the purchase order has to be activated

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change

2014-02-27 Thread St. John, Leslie
I've been analyzing our holds processes for a while and your conversation got me going back around to do some double checking a couple of things. So we just performed a test on the scenario presented; a copy is missing, then found, checked-in but not immediately targeted; and reconfirmed what

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Display of canceled line items in acquisitions

2013-12-03 Thread St. John, Leslie
Kathy, PINES agrees with your approach and finds no objections or reasons why this shouldn't happen. Thanks. Leslie St. John PINES Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345-4304 lstj...@georgialibraries.org

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best Hold Selection Sort Order

2013-11-18 Thread St. John, Leslie
Is anyone using Best Hold Selection Sort Order? We're testing 2.5 and would appreciate a chat if you have a little time. Thanks so much. -- Leslie St. John lstj...@georgialibraries.org PINES Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite