[Koha] Serial Subscription Help

[Gaetan Boisson]

  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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