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Task 4.2 Add publication pattern with combinations

Task 4.2 Add publication pattern with combinations

Owned by Owen Stephens
Mar 03, 2024
2 min read

Some publications have a general pattern (e.g. daily publication) but combine multiple issues into a single published piece (e.g. combined July and August issues into a single summer publication). To support this type of pattern it is possible to define combinations - that is rules for issues that are combined together into a single published piece - in the publication pattern.

The steps in this task are detailed and so can be followed without necessarily a full understanding of the functionality. However, you may wish to consult the documentation to get a fuller understanding of the steps involved.

  1. Login to Snapshot or Snapshot-2 Folio with the username/password: acq-manager / acq-manager

  2. Navigate to the “Serials” application

  3. Create a New serial record with a description and status “Active” (you do not need to link a PO Line for this task, although if you would like to that is also not a problem)

  4. View the serial record and open the Publication pattern accordion and select Add publication pattern

  5. Setup a publication pattern as follows:

    1. Publication cycle of 1 issue every 1 month and define which day of the month the publication happens using the Days of publication, per cycle → Day format options

      1. Cycle length / Time unit = Month

      2. Cycle length / Number of months = 1

      3. No. of issues published per cycle = 1

      4. Days of publication, per cycle / Day format = Day (1-31)

      5. Issue 1 / Day = 1

    2. Use the Add combination rule button to add an combination rule

      1. Time unit = Issue

      2. Combination rule type = Issue (1-n)

      3. Issue = 7

      4. Total number of issues to combine = 2

    3. Use the Add label button to add a label with

      1. Label style = Chronology

      2. Chronology format = Chronology Month

      3. Month format = October

      4. Year format = 23

    4. Use the Add label button to add a label with

      1. Label style = Enumeration

      2. Enumeration format = Enumeration Numeric

      3. Level 1 (e.g. volume)

        1. No. of units = 1

        2. Format = Number

        3. Sequence = Continuous

      4. Level 2 (e.g. issue number)

        1. No. of units = 12

        2. Format = Number

        3. Sequence = Reset

    5. Complete the template with the text Vol. {{enumeration1.level1}} Issue {{enumeration1.level2}}, {{chronology1.month}} {{chronology1.year}}

  6. Click “Preview”

  7. Choose an appropriate start date (this could be 1st of January but could be any date of your choosing) and set the “Values to use for the first issue” to an appropriate first volume (Level 1) and first issue (Level 2) numbering

  8. The preview should show one year's worth of issues starting on the date you specified. Each issue should be listed with a publication date and a display label in the form Vol. 1 Issue 1, January 24. The 7th issue (July if you have used a 1st January start date) should be labelled as a combined issue and the next issue will be labelled as issue 9, rather than issue 8.

There are other options for specifying combinations and you can specify multiple combination rules in a single publication pattern. Experiment with different options for specifying combinations.