Summary: | Why do we allow holds on restricted items (952$5=Use restrictions)? Place a hold for reference? | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy> |
Component: | Circulation | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Status: | In Discussion --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | florian.bontemps, gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, kyle.m.hall, lisettepalouse+koha, martin.renvoize |
Version: | Main | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14370 | ||
Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Marcel de Rooy
2013-07-15 11:31:27 UTC
Did this ever get asked on the list... is it still the case... how can we progress this? I am currently investigating how we could possibly use the restricted field in Koha for a new library. This is what I found out: - the circulation will only be blocked, if restricted = 1 http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=C4/Circulation.pm;hb=483ad2aee510cb23f2bae61883d6b90de262d13d#l903 There seems no other functionality linked to it. So currently, if you added another authorised value != 1, you can check out the item just fine. I'd like to see us decide how this is intended to be used to avoid future problems. We already have the 'not for loan' status blocking circ and holds - maybe it makes sense to have another status that allows holds, but for example only allows for on-site checkouts? But I'd hesitate to change the current behaviour without a good plan and an email to the list, as libraries might have been using this field in different ways. Maybe even needs to be a parameter for a while. I tested how it works today a little bit. With a -1 value: You can put an item on hold for a staff patron and check it out to staff patrons with no problems. You can't put it on hold for a non-staff patron. You can check it out to a non-staff patron, with a prompt that they shouldn't be able to, would you like to override Y or N. We are looking at using this functionality for our professional development collection. Hi Lisette, thx for adding your comment! Any news on this? We're trying to fix the weird traps behaviors (952$0, $1, $4 and $5) and the fact that there's nothing to prevent a hold on a restricted item seems weird to me. Not even a syspref. |