https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37022
Bug ID: 37022
Summary: Allowing holds on not for loan item types
Change sponsored?: ---
Product: Koha
Version: 23.11
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5 - low
Component: Hold requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
- Long context:
We have a number of items in our collection that are not for loan, but are
available for reference. Some of them are in our closed stacks. (see Use Case
in bug #35299 ) In order to consult those, our users should be able to place a
hold on them from the OPAC.
I am able to fix that for items that have an item type that is normally for
loan by setting the "952$7 - Not for loan" status to a negative value, e.g.
"-2" (from the authorized values NOT_LOAN).
However, instead of setting a not for loan status for each item individually,
we work with certain item types that are always not for loan on the item type
level (by checking the "Not for loan" box in Administration > Item types). The
"952$7 - Not for loan" status for these is "0" and it doesn't help to change it
to "-2", as the not for loan status is apparently stored elsewhere because of
the item type. So, a hold cannot be placed on these items.
We could make the item type for loan and change the status for each item
individually, but that creates other issues. E.g. during Covid time items could
not be consulted in the library, so all items where exceptionally made
available for loan. This was 'easy' to do, as we just needed to add a specific
circulation rule for those item types and then uncheck the box for the item
type to make it for loan. Afterwards we just needed to tick the box again. It
has happened another time because of other exceptional circumstances that we
needed to make all items temporarily for loan and it might happen again in the
future.
- Enhancement request:
Is it possible to add an extra option to the 'not for loan' status on item type
level for items that are not for loan but holdable?
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