Add option to specify electronic collection in Create PO-Line API
When an electronic portfolio is created by GOBI through the Create PO-Line API, it is automatically set to standalone. The Create PO-Line API has no option to specify that it should be part of a specific electronic collection.
In our use case we thought we could fix this by using the update inventory import profile when importing a more complete MARC record, but if this profile is configured with a collection a new portfolio will be created if the existing is standalone. (See case #00500768.)
Allowing an electronic collection to be specified when creating portfolios through Create PO-Line API would make it more consistent with other ways to create portfolios.
As part of July releasefor orders originating from GOBI, Alma will attempt to locate the relevant portfolio located within a Community Zone collection using the vendor proprietary identifier number or the ISBN/ISSN and activate it within the relevant collection in the institution.
For more information please see
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes
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Ken Lin commented
This function does not work correctly in a multi campus institution.
It will pick the wrong collection most of the time unless the portfolio is already populated in the IZ and only for the particular campus. If the portfolio exists for multiple campus the PO-Line will associate with multiple portfolios across multiple copies of the collection.