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Serials records can be created and populated with legacy data via the OLE user interface, by doing a Batch Process of the type "Serial Record Import". The import process asks for three files, to populate three tables in OLE:
1) Serial Receiving Record -- this table contains basic info for the Serials Receiving Record, and contains a linking ID for a Docstore holdings record
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3) Serial Record History -- this table contains a row for each issue received
The files to be loaded can either be in either .csv or .xml format. The columns of the .csv files, or the elements of the XML file, must correspond exactly to the column structure of these tables.