---- Reported by wizzyrea@gmail.com 2009-05-27 16:25:50 ---- In a library system where individual libraries have different call numbers, the display on the detail page is weird and misleading. Example: The location field shows an item is currently at Wellsville Library, with a Call Number of YA F MEY. A Wellsville patron consults the OPAC and asks a staff member "where is this item?" and staff member looks and says "This is not in our library, we don't have this call number" and has to look up the item in the staff interface (we have modified our staff interface to show homebranch on the detail page instead of the current location) to determine where Wellsville's copy is located in the library. /example In my opinion, the information of current location is largely redundant, because the status field shows whether the item is in/out/on hold/in transit/etc. Lots of times, patrons only want to know if the library they are standing in actually owns the item they want. I believe this should be a syspref so home location vs. current location column can be chosen (as well as the similar column in the staff interface) by the librarian without editing templates directly. ---- Additional Comments From nengard@gmail.com 2009-08-28 22:17:46 ---- I'd argue that this doesn't need a system preference but just to be changed. I agree that the patrons only want to know what the home library is - and the staff are the ones who want to know what library is currently holding an item. --- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:08 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3262 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3262 Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0
> I'd argue that this doesn't need a system preference but just to be changed. I > agree that the patrons only want to know what the home library is This may be true for some libraries, but not mine. Mine doesn't match Liz's example in which call numbers are different at different libraries. In my system call numbers are consistent across the board, and items may travel from branch to branch. An item "owned" by branch A might actually be available on the shelf at branch B, and the catalog needs to reflect that.
This has come up as a question/problem for some of our sites. It's confusing people who see the location as Library B rather than the real owning Library A, because a patron from B has checked it out. On the one hand, some sites want to see where the library physically is (952b current branch -- the current display). On the other hand, some sites want to see who owns the item (952a owning branch). We had some discussion on the IRC today; it sounds like a syspref to control which displays is the best solution. Should one syspref control both staff and OPAC?
If it's to be changed in staff and opac there should be two prefs so that the staff can decide what they want - which is often different from what the patrons want.
Created attachment 2850 [details] [review] Proposed patch I believe this is a better solution for this than a syspref. the OPAC will still need to be dealt with. LR
> I believe this is a better solution for this than a syspref. This solution works for me. But can we get it to show the library name rather than the code?
As far as I can tell, the full name for homebranch isn't being generated for the templates. That's not one I know how to do (but could conceivably learn).
Created attachment 2874 [details] [review] Revised fix showing branch name instead of code This patch takes Liz's and adds the home branch name instead of branch code.
Pushed, please test
Looks good! (Thanks Owen, for getting the branch name instead of code in there) LR