Cdate in order record

[Patricia Thompson <pthompso@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a question about displaying order information in the webpac. The
OPAC option that determines the appearance of the order info in the Webpac
is as follows:
	Display order record in item record box
	
         		1 > Until received
          		2 > Until catalogued
          		3 > Until ___ days after receipt
          		4 > Only if no item records

When we loaded Update C, we started seeing order info for things that had
already been cataloged and we didn't know why. We had set our option to
"until cataloged" but the system was using the Cdate in the Bib record.  In
our system, previous to Update C, the system apparently did not pay any
attention to the Cdate field in the order record, but following the update,
the "system now works as it should" according to Innovative. So now it's
looking for the Cdate in the order record, and of course we don't have any. 

This doesn't make any sense to me at all, because I don't see why we should
have to update order records in order to make something "cataloged." But I
need to find out from you all how you get that date in there. Has anyone
found a fast and efficient way? Our catalogers normally work in Catalog
Database Maintenance. In order to modify an order record we would need to
be in the Ordering and Receiving Subsystem. How do you manage that? Do you
run lists of cataloged titles and then rapid update the order records? 

Pat Thompson

Patricia R. Thompson
Head of Cataloging
Jessie Ball DuPont Library
University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1657
(931) 598-1702 (fax)
pthompso@xxxxxxxxxx
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