Understanding Suppression

Sierra

Documenting some learning from testing suppression here:

• It's important to save the record in Sierra in a way that actually persists the changes - turns out it's easy to lose changes if you don't hit the right buttons.

• deleted=true in the Sierra API is not "Include deleted records", it’s "Only send deleted records".

• suppressed=true in Sierra API is not "include suppressed records", it's "Only send suppressed records".

• deleted=true AND suppressed=true is a recipe for the entropic end of the universe.

  • A combination of the above 2 resulted in some tricky to understand scenarios - but I think we're through it now

• The command line API client to Sierra was invaluable in unpicking what was going on here - particularly the ability to get a bib by ID.

Originally posted by @Ian Ibbotson (Use this one) in Slack.