---- Reported by russel.garlick@liblime.com 2007-12-30 12:53:22 ---- Koha used to force you to do a search of you catalog to see if you already held an item before adding a new one. This helps with ensuring that you don't end up with unnecessary duplicate records. This meant that if you were adding an item that you knew for certain that you didn't have, you had to go through an extra set of searching for an item that wasn't there. Now you can start from scratch and add a new empty record, without having to search. It would be nice to make this a system preference so that you can force everyone to search the catalog before adding an empty record *if you want to*. --- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 00:33 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 1724 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1724 Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0 The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here: chris@bigballofwax.co.nz. Previous reporter was russel.garlick@liblime.com.
This enhancement request is still valid as there is no such functionality in current master. Resetting QA contact.
Maybe instead of forcing an extra step, that might often be unnecessary, having a better duplicate check routine would be nice?
I don't know how this would work at the moment, since there are a lot more options than just "From an existing record" and "From a new (empty) record"
There hasn't been much interest for this one in the 13 years it has been around. I am closing WONTFIX, please re-open if you are still interested. Personally, I'd prefer improving our duplicate checks instead of enforching a manual search step.