From the Lauchpad description:
In its current form, Acquisitions record importing is inflexible and
unforgiving. The user is given practically no control over how inbound
records match against existing records nor how to deal with record
collisions. This proposal attempts to resolve this problem by leveraging
Vandelay for matching, merging, overlaying, and importing acquisitions
records.
Suggested work flow:
1. Any time an ACQ record should be loaded into the catalog or simply
linked to an existing catalog record, the user is presented with an
additional set of Vandelay upload options to control the matching and
import behavior. This would include the vendor file upload UI, PO
activation, and PO "Load Bibs and Items". The Vandelay options would
include the full set of Match Sets, Merge Profiles, import options, etc.
the user normally has.
2. Once options are selected and, when applicable, the MARC file is uploaded,
the acquisitions records are added to a new type of ACQ Vandelay queue and
processed like any other Vandelay records.
3. Vandelay will be taught to recognize ACQ records and update the lineitems
to reflect any imported/linked catalog records.
4. Any records that fail to import will be available for manual inspection
within the Vandelay interface an can be re-imported from there.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com>