| Summary: | Be able to specify a default item type, to allow Koha to do things to items that don't have itypes? | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Liz Rea <wizzyrea> |
| Component: | Staff interface | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | gmcharlt, wizzyrea |
| Version: | Main | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crowdfunding goal: | 0 | Patch complexity: | --- |
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Description
Liz Rea
2019-08-13 19:21:47 UTC
What we do is make the item type mandatory in the frameworks. That way you can't catalog an item without an item type, but you have to consciously pick. With a default that is applied automatically it would be really hard to find cataloguing mistakes. Also, Koha already uses the item type from the framework 942$c as a default 'suggestion' when you catalog a new item and you can add a default in the framework to enforce a default. I am not sure we need an additional setting? Maybe it would be good to change the default frameworks to make item type a mandatory field? Hm, I might have misunderstood (forcing an itemtype in the item vs having a fallback Koha just uses when itemtype empty). But a bit afraid it would require changing a lot of code to make that happen... favoring fixing the data a bit right now. (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #2) > Hm, I might have misunderstood (forcing an itemtype in the item vs having a > fallback Koha just uses when itemtype empty). But a bit afraid it would > require changing a lot of code to make that happen... favoring fixing the > data a bit right now. We have made the itemtype mandatory all over Koha since. There is also a bug that breaks the display in the OPAC for records with items missing itemtypes. I wonder if this is still needed? This does seem better lately due to fixes in other areas. I think we can put this one to bed. Liz |