https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20194
--- Comment #5 from Gaetan Boisson <[email protected]> --- We had discussed it internally before submitting this, and came up with the conclusion that displaying which type is which would be redundant, because we couldn't think of a scenario where the same list would be used in both fields.The display would always be something like "book ; long loan" and be explicit for the librarians because they know the lists they are using. I am confused about what the use case would be for having the same information in both biblioitems.itemtype and items.itype. When that is the case, why not position item-level_itypes to bibliographic level, and leave items.itype empty? Can you enlighten us on this with more details on the use case where the information would be the same? The use case for this enhancement is that quite a few libraries want to qualify the bibliographic record with a notion of the type of document (book, dvd, etc.) because then all items attached to this record will obviously have the same type. This notion will be useful for search. But then some want to be able to have different circulation rules for the different items attached to the record, "long loan" and "short loan" for instance. This is the use case for using both. In that scenario, biblioitems.itemtype is controlled by a separate authorized value category, not by itemtypes. Some even crazier librarians use the ccode for an extra level of categorization on the item. I think this is linked to a terminology issue in Koha that doesn't seem to bother everyone: what the system calls "item types" can be positioned at the bibliographic level, in which case it is not about *items* any longer. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
