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

--- Comment #10 from Emmi Takkinen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #9)
> (In reply to Emmi Takkinen from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #7)
> > > (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.
> > 
> > Hmm, that's probably the best solution and suitable for everyone. Maybe
> > there could be a note next to "item type for older issues" field where we
> > tell that if the field is not filled, existing itemtype is used.
> 
> Sounds good to me - could you file a separate bug?

New bug 43239 created.

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