Digital Content Creation_ Mass Adoption Concept

Owned by Mary Volkmer (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 15, 2020 by Dawn Brunke (Unlicensed)

With this enhancement, a Digital Content Updater can be added to WPConsole. This service will automatically add digital textbooks and update retail prices for digital content.
The Digital Content Updater service will add eligible digital text records into PrismCore if the following conditions are met:

  1. Courses are established in the 'Course Request' module, for an open term flagged to 'Export to Web' at 'Term Maintenance'.
  2. Textbooks (Print ISBNs) are added to the detail of these course requests that have corresponding Digital ISBNs available (Web Manager > Textbooks > Digital Content > Available Titles.) These are added with a type of "Optional".
  3. The term/courses are listed on the store website.
  4. When 'Run Matched Adoptions' for the term in Web Manager > Textbooks > Digital Content > Matched Adoptions is run, if the Digital ISBN does not pre-exist in the system, and if there is a corresponding Print ISBN in the detail of a course request with matched adoptions listed in the Web Manager, and if the instructor is flagged for digital, the following will complete in the system when the Digital Content Updater process runs:
  5. A Digital item record is created at Item Maintenance with the digital default DCC and vendor and with (eBook) at the beginning of the title, stock-on-hand is set to zero, and the used record flagged as discontinued.
  6. A header record is created at 'Digital Content' with the digital default instruction.
  7. The new digital textbook is added to the course request detail with zero 'Requested' quantity.
  8. The shelf tag flag is flipped to need printing on the course request.
  9. If there is no binding type of 'Digital Content' the process will create a binding, and all newly created digital content items will be associated with that binding type.

Please note however, that if the instructor is not flagged for digital in the course request, no action is taken in the system. The digital textbooks must be added manually by the user in 'Course Requests' module. Additionally, please note that if digital adoptions have already been done manually for the current term, stores should wait to deploy this feature until their next term.