TPAC: Improvement to serials display (under the "issues held" label)
(All the following text assumes you're using "new" 2.0+ serials and that
the org unit setting 'opac.fully_compressed_serial_holdings' is true
in the context where you're browsing.)
Today on the TPAC record detail page under the "issues held" label, you
get a list of serial summary statements, which you can expand to a list of
issuances for which items have been received. You can place issuance-level
holds on these.
That existing interface just kind of burps up all your holdings within
scope and doesn't show you what holdings belong to what org unit.
Furthermore, it doesn't group your holdings into enumeration or
chronology units, which can matter a lot if you've got 150 years of
some daily newspaper and you're trying to browse through them in the
OPAC.
This new interface presents expanded serials holdings organized into a
tree, with summaries placed under their org units and holdings grouped
under their summaries under either chronology units (default) or
enumeration ones, controlled by a new field on serial.distribution.
There's also a new org unit setting that lets you change the default
value for this new field in the Alternate Serial Control view to
enumeration, if you want.
Like the issues-held interface it's replacing, this knows how to deal
with holdings where you have one unit per received item, or no units per
received item, but its behavior is not yet defined for one unit per many
items (the binding case). The "regular" Serial Control view doesn't
have a widget to control the new field on serial.distribution yet.
These are the areas where I'd be interested in helping to close the
gaps, before or after this is committed.
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