Setting Up Chronology Pattern Codes and Levels

A chronology pattern level refers to the individual calendar units of a chronology pattern. For example, this chronology pattern has four levels:

Level 1: Day of Week
Level 2: Date of Month
Level 3: Month
Level 4: Year

You assign the chronology pattern code to each level. This code links the levels together.

To set up chronology pattern codes and levels

1 Search for the serials title you want and send it to Serials Control, if necessary.

Horizon displays the Copy List window.

2 Highlight the issue that you want to set up.
3 Click Prediction.

Horizon opens the Serials Prediction Table window for the serial copy record.

4 Click Page Down or resize the window to display these fields in the Edit Serials Prediction Table window:

5 Click Codes.

Horizon opens the Code Lookup Chronology Pattern Codes window.

6 Click Add.

Horizon opens the Edit Chronology Pattern Codes window:

7 Enter a code to identify the chronology pattern that you are setting up in the Chron. Code field.

This is the code that staff members enter in the publication pattern setup for a run. (For example, a chronology code may be, “DoWDMY” [Day of week, Day, Month, Year].)

8 Enter an example of how the chronology appears for this pattern in the Pattern field.

(For example with the code, “DoWDMY” [Day of week, Day, Month, Year], the pattern would be, “Friday, 13 March 2002.”)

The remainder of the Edit Chronology Pattern Codes window contains a group used to set up chronology pattern levels for the code.

9 Enter the number of the level for the first calendar unit.

(For example, if you are defining the DoWDMY chronology pattern, you would enter “0” as the “Day of Week” level; you would enter “1” for the “Date” level, and so forth.)

10 Mark the Range Type radio button for the level.

(For example, a single day of the week, such as Thursday, would have a Single value. A range of days of the week, such as Monday through Wednesday, would have a Range value. A combination of days of the week, such as Mon/Tues, would have a Slash‑list value.

11 Mark a Calendar Unit that corresponds with the level.
12 Enter the interpretation code that determines what values Horizon can choose from to display for this level, or click Codes to display a list of valid interpretation codes.

(For example, for the level day of week to display this way: “Thursday,” you would want a code that causes Horizon to spell out each day of the week.)

(For more information about interpretations, see Setting Up Interpretation Codes.)

13 Mark the Hemisphere radio button appropriate for your library.

This field lets Horizon know whether to match Winter with December or with June.

14 Do these tasks:
a Enter any label in the Label field if the level is preceded or followed by punctuation.
b Mark Postfix if the punctuation appears after the level name.

(For the example Friday, March 13, 2002, you would enter a comma [ , ] in the Label field, then mark the Postfix for both the Day of Week level and the Date of Month level. The punctuation then follows the label.)

15 Mark Lose On Collapse if you want Horizon to omit the level from the summary of holdings display in PAC and staff searching when issues or volumes are collapsed.
16 Repeat steps 9 through 15 for each remaining calendar unit.
17 Save the file.

Horizon opens the Code Lookup Chronology Pattern Codes window when you close the Edit Chronology Pattern Codes window.

 


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