https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21264

--- Comment #7 from Katrin Fischer <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Emmi Takkinen from comment #6)
> (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Emmi Takkinen from comment #4)
> > > We are having problems with NULL values in subscription.previousitemtype
> > > column. When one receives multiple copies of a serial those NULL values
> > > attempt to create items with itype as NULL.
> > > 
> > > Could we just make "item type for older issues" field mandatory?
> > 
> > I think our libraries would not all like that - why not correct the behavior
> > and make the item type field mandatory on the item form? So if nothing is
> > selected, the item can't be saved. That should already be the case but maybe
> > it's not if the items can be created with null. I believe we have also seen
> > that faulty behavior.
> 
> All our item forms have mandatory itemtype field but this doesn't fix the
> problem completely. If syspref "makePreviousSerialAvailable" is enabled Koha
> tries to fill previous serials itype field with value from
> subscription.previousitemtype (code on serials-edit.pl lines 247-271) and if
> that value is NULL then we run into problems.
> 
> Of course this wouldn't be an issue for us if we had same itemtype in both
> items.itype and biblioitems.itemtype columns and we could rely on
> Item->store to fill itype correctly.

I think the other solution would be to not activate the mechanism if the field
is not set and keep the existing itemtype. That would only require a change to
the logic and no data changes or similar.

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