Bug 37792

Summary: Allow 'Hold policy' setting for patron category and/or itemtype
Product: Koha Reporter: Nick Clemens (kidclamp) <nick>
Component: Hold requestsAssignee: Tomás Cohen Arazi (tcohen) <tomascohen>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: andrew, gmcharlt, lisette, tomascohen
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4850
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Description Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2024-08-30 13:02:45 UTC
Currently the hold policy can only be set at the branch/itemtype level

Some libraries wish to be able to set the policy at branch/category/itemtype level, e.g. to allow staff to hold 'internal reference' items, but no other patrons

Many libraries try to replicate this behavior by setting 'Holds allowed' to zero, however, this prevents placing of holds but not filling of holds.
Comment 1 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2025-07-08 14:13:28 UTC
Adjusting this bug slightly. I'd love to be able to set hold policy by category in addition to itemtype and library. But I don't want it moved into the circ matrix; it should either remain in the current table (with booking and return policy) or move into its own dedicated table.