Bug 24686

Summary: Capturing circulation statistics per number of pieces in an item
Product: Koha Reporter: Kelly McElligott <kelly>
Component: CirculationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: andrewfh, barbara.johnson, daniel.gaghan, gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, kyle.m.hall, lisettepalouse+koha
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Kelly McElligott 2020-02-19 21:53:23 UTC
A library would like to see a possible enhancement to Koha.  If a DVD has 5 discs in the item, when this item (with 5 dvds) is circulated- they would like Koha to count this circulation as 5 issues (as in each of the items included in the 1 main item) was circulated.
Comment 1 Daniel Gaghan 2020-02-20 23:18:09 UTC
What we were thinking when we requested this enhancement was to have an item checkouted to a users show up on their accounts as one checkout but have the Koha statistics count the number of pieces of the item as the number of material issued. 


For example a DVD set with 5 discs would count in the statistics as five checkout/issues in the stats.
Comment 2 Lisette Scheer 2020-02-21 21:51:59 UTC
I definitely think this should be configurable by item type, possibly by library as well. 

I can see the reason for wanting to do it for your example, but might not want to count as multiple items for say, a kit that includes a sewing machine and a power cord listed as different materials on the record.
Comment 3 Daniel Gaghan 2020-02-25 16:17:30 UTC
(In reply to Lisette Scheer from comment #2)
> I definitely think this should be configurable by item type, possibly by
> library as well. 
> 
> I can see the reason for wanting to do it for your example, but might not
> want to count as multiple items for say, a kit that includes a sewing
> machine and a power cord listed as different materials on the record.

Yes, that's basically the idea. It sounds like this enhancement would require the creation of a new item type. However, if we could make it a record specific setting that would be our preference. So a field where number of items are listed and count toward circs check box (checking would mean yes count them as circs). This is probably pipe dream stuff but why not aim high?
Comment 4 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2021-06-15 11:49:55 UTC
+1 on this. This would be a handy feature. I prefer Daniel's idea of a number stored in the item record so that it's easy to deal with the fact that items are likely to all have different numbers of items.
Comment 5 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2021-06-15 18:11:22 UTC
*** Bug 27083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***