[Koha] Serial Subscription Help

[Nicole Engard]

What about creating a custom frequency, is there any way to do it in there
without having to make edits to the predicted dates?

Nicole

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Gaetan Boisson <
gaetan.boisson at biblibre.com> wrote:

>  Hi Nicole,
>
> the pattern you describe is between two times a month and once every two
> weeks actually. It's not the same thing since we don't have exactly four
> weeks per month.
>
> Looking at the link you gave and a calendar (for 2015), it seems this
> publication is issued once every other tuesday. (It looks like it is "first
> and third tuesdays of every month" like Julian said.)
> But then, you can have 3 tuesdays in one month, which is what's happening
> for march 2015. Issue 7 should be on the 31st of March if we were truly
> publishing one issue once every two weeks. I'd say the serial is published
> every other tuesday but twice a month no matter what. In this case you'll
> have to manage it as an irregularity : the publication skips one week if
> there are 3 tuesdays in one month, and this is too complicated to be
> supported by the serials module by itself.
>
> What i would do is set up this serial with a once every two weeks
> frequency, and the 7th of January as the first issue publication date. It
> would look alright until issue 7, which would be planned for the 31st of
> March, and the next issue being 2 weeks after it would be scheduled for the
> 14th of April and everything onwards would be screwed.
> I would save the subscription this way, after receiving number 6, Koha
> would generate number 7, for the 31st of March. Before receiving it (i
> think you could do it when receiving it too), i'd edit this serial, and
> change the publication date to the 7th of April (which is my guess at how
> this publication works). This way, the next issues generated will be based
> on this date, and the subscription will be back on track. You'll have to do
> this everytime you have 3 tuesdays in the same month.
>
> The rest of the model looks fine to me, and the numbers should increment
> and roll properly.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Le 19/03/2015 14:41, Nicole Engard a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I have this subscription: http://annals.org/issues.aspx
>>
>> You can see the the numbering/dates should look like this:
>>
>> Jan 7 160 (1)
>> Jan 21 160 (2)
>> Feb 4 160 (3)
>> Feb 18 160 (4)
>> Mar 4 160 (5)
>> Mar 18 160 (6)
>> Apr 1 160 (7)
>> Apr 15 160 (8)
>> May 6 160 (9)
>> May 20 160 (10)
>> Jun 3 160 (11)
>> Jun 17 160 (12)
>> Jul 1 161 (1)
>> Jul 15 161 (2)
>> Aug 5 161 (3)
>> Aug 19 161 (4)
>> Sep 2 161 (5)
>> Sep 16 161 (6)
>> Oct 7 161 (7)
>> Oct 21 161 (8)
>> Nov 4 161 (9)
>> Nov 18 161 (10)
>> Dec 2 161 (11)
>> Dec 16 161 (12)
>>
>> But when I put it in I get this:  http://screencast.com/t/0PTXDxJC (note
>> that the dates on the pattern on the right don't match the dates above -
>> the numbering is right though)
>>
>> How do I set up a pattern for 2 times a month?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch in advance!
>> Nicole
>>
>> PS. This will go in the manual.
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