Chronology Wizard

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Chronology Wizard

The Chronology policy provides the chronology designations, such as the month or season, for each issue.

The Chronology and Chronology Type policies are used to calculate chronology statements in prediction records. Do not remove or modify the standard delivered policies without consulting SirsiDynix Customer Support.

From List Policies window, you can create, display, modify, copy, or remove the Chronology policies. Click Close to exit the wizard.

Attributes

The Chronology policy contains the following attributes.

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Name

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Description

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Code

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Holdings Display

Name

This attribute uniquely identifies each Chronology policy. This name is ten characters or less, and may not include spaces or punctuation, except for dash (-), underscore (_), and dollar sign ($). Additionally, the pipe character (|) may not be used.

Description

This attribute provides more information about the policy and its use by the library. The description may be up to 60 characters in length. Although the Description attribute may contain spaces and punctuation, the pipe character (|) cannot be used.

Code

This attribute contains the numeric value used in the 863 field of the MARC holding record.

Holdings Display

This attribute defines the text that will appear for this chronology in the MARC holding record summary displayed in WorkFlows and the e-Library. Only seasonal and monthly chronologies are translated to this text. Other chronologies will display the policy number.