When looking at a serial in the opac it says 'Waiting' if the issue is 'Expected' - this is confusing and should be consistent and say 'Expected' instead.
I see this in one of the help files: "The 'Grace Period' is the number of days before an issue is automatically moved from 'expected' status to 'waiting' and how many days before an issue is automatically moved from 'waiting' status to 'late'" If the OPAC should show "expected" when it says "waiting," should it show "waiting" instead of "arrived?" In the template: <td> [% IF ( serial.status1 ) %]Waiting[% END %] [% IF ( serial.status2 ) %]Arrived[% END %] [% IF ( serial.status3 ) %]Late[% END %] [% IF ( serial.status4 ) %]Missing[% END %] [% IF ( serial.status5 ) %]Not Available[% END %] [% IF ( serial.status7 ) %]Claimed[% END %] [% IF ( serial.notes ) %]([% serial.notes %])[% END %] </td>
Owen, I know I put that in the help file, but I've never actually seen that automatic status change happen - has anyone else? Regarding the template change I mentioned an issue is saying Waiting in the OPAC and Expected in the staff client - I just ask that it says the same thing in both places because "Waiting" is confusing patrons when in fact the issue is not late but just expected to arrive next month. Nicole
I think there might be a cronjob doing this automatic change. There is a cronjob related to serials, but I have not tried it out yet: / misc / cronjobs / serialsUpdate.pl
I still don't know what to do with this. If an issue goes from "expected" to "waiting" to "late" like the help file says, how can we replace "waiting" with "expected?" Or are they really the same, and the help file is inaccurate?
I think it never worked the way it's described on the help page and the manual. The grace period is used with the serialsUpdate.pl cronjob. It will generate the next issue and set the one before to 'Late' with an optional note. Submitting a patch for the help file and the manual, OPAC appears to be fixed already.
Created attachment 75352 [details] [review] Bug 7136: Correct description of Grace period for subscriptions The grace period is used with the serialsUpdate.pl cronjob. It will generate the next issue and set the one before to 'Late' with an optional note. There is on trace of a 'waiting' status for serials. To test: - check help file on the subscription edit form for the description of the 'Grace period'.
Created attachment 75934 [details] [review] Bug 7136: Correct description of Grace period for subscriptions The grace period is used with the serialsUpdate.pl cronjob. It will generate the next issue and set the one before to 'Late' with an optional note. There is on trace of a 'waiting' status for serials. To test: - check help file on the subscription edit form for the description of the 'Grace period'. Signed-off-by: Maryse Simard <maryse.simard@inlibro.com>
Created attachment 76715 [details] [review] Bug 7136: Correct description of Grace period for subscriptions The grace period is used with the serialsUpdate.pl cronjob. It will generate the next issue and set the one before to 'Late' with an optional note. There is on trace of a 'waiting' status for serials. To test: - check help file on the subscription edit form for the description of the 'Grace period'. Signed-off-by: Maryse Simard <maryse.simard@inlibro.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Awesome work all! Pushed to master for 18.11
Pushed to 18.05.x for 18.05.02
Pushed to 17.11.x for 17.11.08