Thanks Everyone!

[cid:[email protected]]Elizabeth Davis (she/her), Support & 
Project Management Specialist
Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (PaILS) | SPARK
(717) 256-1627 | 
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From: Morgan, Michele <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 10:51 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <[email protected]>
Cc: Elizabeth Davis <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-general] Pick Up Later

Hi Elizabeth,

It makes sense that a patron may not be able to retrieve their hold when it 
becomes available for them, and may want to pass on the current item but 
suspend their hold, possibly with an activation date, and keep their position 
in the queue.

Suspending a hold is currently disallowed once the item has been captured.

Maybe it would be useful instead, to allow captured holds to be suspended, and 
have that action also perform a retarget to free up the captured item for the 
next hold.

Essentially, the steps that the staff user would need to do manually to move 
the hold along to the next person and suspend it for the current patron would 
be wrapped into the process of suspending the captured hold.

That sounds worth a wishlist bug to me.

Michele

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Michele M. Morgan, Systems Support Specialist
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 9:39 AM Elizabeth Davis via Evergreen-general 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:
Hi

Similar to the “Deliver Later” in Overdrive’s Libby, staff were wondering how 
they can easily suspend a hold when it’s in the ready for pick up status.  They 
had a few patrons over the summer who were unable to pick up items like museum 
passes because they were leaving for vacation in the next day or two.

My two suggestions were either use find another target and then suspend it via 
edit hold dates or the more complicated cancel the hold, replace it, send the 
patron to the top of queue and suspend it.  Does anyone else have a different 
workflow?   Is there any interest in a wishlist bug for a pickup later option?

Thanks,

[cid:[email protected]]Elizabeth Davis (she/her), Support & 
Project Management Specialist
Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (PaILS) | SPARK
(717) 256-1627 | 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
support.sparkpa.org<https://support.sparkpa.org/> | 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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