Create a Physical Titles or Physical Items set from a list of MMS IDs
It is possible to create an All Titles set from a list of MMS IDs, but not a Physical Titles or Physical Items set. To run certain jobs – like Change Holdings Information – a Physical Titles set is required. In order to run this job on a list of MMS IDs, you must first create an All Titles set, then extract some other key like OCLC #, then create a Physical Titles set from that list, and only then can you run your job. Since all physical titles and items DO have MMS IDs, it should be possible to create a Physical Titles or Physical Items set from a list of MMS IDs.
Michael Cohen (UW-Madison)
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Sally Smith
commented
This is good news.
It is a pity that it still won't be possible to create a Physical Items set from a list of MMS IDs as there are many instances where it would make things easier if we could do that rather than continue to have to create the titles set, export the results, re- upload the items to create the items set.
I understand the explanation that the MMS ID is not an identifier of the item, but it is an identifier of all items at that MMS ID and if we want to run a job on all items it would make things easier if we could create the items set from the MMS IDs.
However it is good news that it will soon be possible to create all types of titles sets using the MMS ID, thank you.
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Simon Hunt
commented
This would be an extremely useful addition!
Since OCLC number (or other 035 number), ISBN, etc. are not guaranteed to be unique identifiers in Alma, it is puzzling that Alma's own unique MMS ID is not always an option for creating itemized sets. It prevents us from reliably targeting specific records in Analytics and generating a 1:1 set based on the analysis.