Hi Henri We are about to start some work on Serials for a corporate library. We plan to follow your lead in making the functionality we develop system preferences. What you are proposing to do is great, we hope to build on it with the functionality we are working on.
Serials Management ------------------------------ Adding a YesNo system preference (say SerialaddItems) in order to add items on issue reception for a serials. If this syspref is set to 1 (Yes), when managing reception of an issue, a new line (under number would come out and propose to input item information such as : - barcode, - homebranch (holdingbranch would be the same), - itemcallnumber (if managed in items tab), - items.status (if items.notforloan manage in item tab), - location (if managed in items tab) (The issue number would be stored into items.notes.)
We are working on Routing Lists --------------------------------- We plan to make this an option in preferences Routing lists on Yes/No http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec#routing_list http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec#adding_a_new_staff_membe... Claims --------------------------------- Our client would like to set claims per publication. So once again Serial Claims Yes/No If yes - set a default. Then in the information about the individual serial provide a mechanism to override the default. http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec#claim_cycle http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec#claiming_a_missing_issue Frequency Module --------------------------------- Our client has requested that we simplify how the frequency/volume numbering is calculated. What we would like to do is once again is have a system preference Serial Frequency Custom (use the existing system) or Simple (the one we are going to develop http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec#publication_pattern_code... Our interface will use drop downs etc. As such it will be more restrictive than the system Paul(?) developed. So once again for each serial Item there will be the option to override and use the Custom method. We'll try and keep you up to date as we proceed. Cheers -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz