[Koha-bugs] [Bug 15148] Serials: Test prediction pattern starts at First issue date, not Subscription start date

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15148

--- Comment #9 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
Hi Myka, 

I think there might be some possible misunderstanding there:

>The expected/desired behavior is for Koha to start the prediction pattern based on the subscription start date, listing the number of issues based on the subscription length value. Koha will need to calculate the issue number based on the numbering pattern and the first issue publication date. 

>What is presently happening is the prediction pattern is based on the first date of publication and length of subscription. This is a problem for libraries that start a new subscription in the middle of a publication, need to predict issues from the starting point of their subscription, and want to preserve the first date of publication in Koha.

In Koha, it was always documented: "In ‘First issue publication date’ you want
to enter the date of the issue you have in your hand, the date from which the
prediction pattern will start". See:
https://koha-community.org/manual/19.11/en/html/serials.html?highlight=first%20publication

So I wonder how changing that would affect libraries already using
subscriptions for a long time. At the moment, it could look something like this
for a lot of libraries:

Subscription start date: January 1st
First issue publication: March 15th (the first issue that was tracked when
starting to use the serials module)

It's possible to start in the middle of a prediction pattern - if you give me
an example that you are not sure about, I'd be happy to help and see if we can
make it work.

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