[Koha] Automated MARC record ordering (bug 34355)

[Lori Ann Thorrat]

Hello Raymund, 

We use this process to create order records, baskets, and line items in Koha for orders we place with Baker & Taylor, Ingram, and Midwest Tape.  Each of our vendors configures their data and their API a little differently, so we have had help setting this up from our support vendor, ByWater Solutions.  We worked directly with Nick Clemens and Jesse Zairo, both of whom are referenced on bug 34355 and work for ByWater Solutions.  Since you are in the UK, you may want to reach out to Open Fifth (https://openfifth.co.uk/). They are ByWater partners and Matt Blenkinsop, who was assigned this bug, works for them.  

Best of luck, 

Lori

Lori Ann Thorrat
Manager Catalog / Processing 

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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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