---- Reported by rch@liblime.com 2008-08-18 22:24:12 ----

The current holds implementation limits a hold to be either title-level or item-level, and only one outstanding hold may be placed at a time.  This is a significant shortcoming, especially for serial records, where a patron may wish to request several issues.
There should be some way to distinguish whether all item records attached to a bib record are equivalent in the sense of fulfilling a hold request.  I feel at this stage that using the biblio.serial flag should be sufficient for this.  ( However, note that the existence of a series title can trigger the serial flag.  I think that is a behavior added by BibLibre, and should be addressed).
If there is such a flag, then we can allow multiple item-level requests on a single bib, and, on fulfillment, cancel all other hold requests if items are determined to be equivalent.

There is some code for this tucked away in the dev_week branch, though I imagine at this point the holds code will need to be refactored such that that code is irrelevant.

In short, this enhancement request is for allowance of multiple concurrent item-level, but a precursor I think is the stated interpretation of the biblio.serial flag as indicating that multiple concurrent item-level holds are _not_ equivalent, where in all other cases they are.



---- Additional Comments From oleonard@myacpl.org 2008-08-19 05:50:08 ----

There are other situations besides serials where multiple items might be reserved: multi-volume sets like encyclopedias or multi-part video sets (NPL's bugbear: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=93738). It is also useful for staff to be able to reserve multiple items. Catalogers may need to retrieve all copies of a particular item for relabeling. Staff may wish to reserve multiple copies of a book for use in a book discussion group. It would be great to give staff users that option.



---- Additional Comments From jwagner@ptfs.com 2009-05-29 11:41:08 ----

Is this covered by the patch being sent for http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3093?



---- Additional Comments From kdr@ckls.org 2009-06-25 22:09:23 ----

In addition to the points made by Owen, both patrons and staff can not tell which barcode is a certain volume without jumping back and forth to the detail page or writing down the appropriate barcodes.

This is not at all user-friendly. Can another column be added derived from the 952h (Serial Enumeration / chronology)and displayed on the hold page in both the OPAC and staff? I believe this goes hand in hand with the possibility of placing holds on more than one monographic volume at a time (which is needed!)



--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 00:52 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 2532 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2532

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