Bug 6830 - Koha Admin Cannot delete all items
Summary: Koha Admin Cannot delete all items
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Cataloging (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low normal (vote)
Assignee: Galen Charlton
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Reported: 2011-09-01 13:17 UTC by Zachary Spalding
Modified: 2012-10-26 00:40 UTC (History)
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Description Zachary Spalding 2011-09-01 13:17:47 UTC
When logged in as a Kohaadmin, I can not do a delete all items from the Edit button when in the cataloging module.

The follow message appears. 
Cannot Delete: The items do not belong to your branch.
Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2011-09-01 14:33:51 UTC
Many things will not work when logged in as Kohaadmin. Instead of using the Kohaadmin user, you should always create a new patron and give it the permissions you need to do administration.
Comment 2 Zachary Spalding 2011-09-01 15:16:37 UTC
My root issue is that I have two catalogers who maintain 16 independent branches who are setup with the superlibrarian privilege and were able to easily add a record and then attach multiple libraries to that record.  

But in a past upgrade they were only able to do that if they set the location to the library.  But that takes quite a bit of time, because every time they set to be a new location they are directed back to the circulation search.  So they then have to go back and find the record add the item information.  Then in some cases they had to do that 10 to 16 more times per record, depending on the record.

So they eventually started using the Kohaadmin account because it gave them that functionality back.  But now that functionality is gone from Koha Admin as well.


Does Koha support a way for a cataloger to easily manage multiple locations?  Should I be opening a bug or an enhancement request for the superlibrarian privilege? Should I make an enhancement request for a new privilege that allows a person to administer the entire collection?

At this time it does not seem to be an easy way for one person to administer the entire catalog.