[Koha] Serial workarounds

[Nicole Engard]

Regarding the dates in predictions this might be of interest to you:
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7592 I'm not
sure if that's what you're talking about, but  it's a start.

Nicoole

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:13 PM,  <Heather_Hernandez at nps.gov> wrote:
> Hi--
>
> Adam wrote:
>> We are in the process of migrating to Koha and were wondering what others
>> are doing in serials. Some functionality is missing that we currently use
>> and would like to get some examples of how others are doing it. We are an
>> private academic library with about 200 serials. Any advice would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Two Examples:
>> * Dates in the predictions
>> * Quarterly predictions
>
> We are very new to Koha, so may not be doing things in the most efficient
> way, but in the serials planning part of the subscription, when entering
> the new subscription, I *try* to predict the next published issue, but have
> been having to edit and adjust as I receive serials.  (When using the
> "receive" function, I try to edit & adjust the predicted dates to more
> reflect what is actually expected.)  You can also use "edit subscription"
> to go back into the serials planning part to adjust a predicted date.
>
> As for the quarterly titles, I just pick the month and day that I expect
> them, and use the appropriate frequency prediction based on whether they
> come with a month or a season ("1/3 months (quarterly)" or "1/season" if I
> remember correctly!)
>
> I've been referring to the manual extensively, especially this section
> (we're on version 3.8):
> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/serials.html
>
> I hope this helps!  Cheerio,
> heather
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