Add fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ to the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job
Area of concern: Additional indexes for ‘Change Physical Items’ Job.
Please reference Ex Libris presentation ‘Automation Tasks for Summary Holdings’:
In order for 863/866 Summary Holdings generation to work properly, each item record must contain certain information in the ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ fields. Currently, neither of these fields are available via the ‘Change Physical Items’ job.
What should be changed: As Serials Processors, we would like item level fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’, made editable via the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job. Being able to change these fields in batch would benefit our workflow by allowing us to quickly optimize our records for Automated Summary Holdings generation. This would save a massive amount of time when compared with editing each item record individually.
Lindsay
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Dear all,
Please note that the physical item APIs have been updated to include pattern_type and linking_number since this idea was created, and are available to you for retrieving and updating these fields. -
Lindsay
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Agree with this, so needed! We submitted similar idea under the title: 'Add fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ to the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job'
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Anonymous
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We would like to massively change the Pattern type and Linking number fields. It can not be done either via API or with Job(Change physical items).
The purpose of these massive changes at the item level (fascicles) is the automatic creation of field 866 in the MARC record for each journal holding according to the fascicles received in Alma. In our case, it is essential to make this massive change but it can not be done via job or via API.https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/Create_Summary_field_866867868
