[Koha] Automated MARC record ordering (bug 34355)

[Raymund Delahunty]

Is anyone using or testing this functionality added in 24.11? I'm spending mad amounts of time trying to get the software working reliably, as we want to use it to support the EBSCO ordering workflow EOCR, but I am having lots of problems. Sometimes records update (new items and baskets), sometimes they don't, so far only the first file is being dealt with by the script, and I have at least 6 other puzzles. I did go out on Mattermost but had no replies to a specific question I raised there a few days back. Maybe I am on my own here...
BTW, if in testing, anyone is using the default upload/staging directory, make sure you add a matchpoint/value pair in the Marc Order account even if you have only one vendor proposing to supply data. In one test I didn't, and it wasn't pretty. The script started to deal with every file in the reservoir (not just my test file) and by the time our support company started work and killed the processing, over 1,000 files had part-processed and baskets created, and some data even imported. In retrospect my running tests on both our production and test servers to try to make fast progress working out how this complex functionality works was... unwise (read 'ridiculously silly'!).


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