Does the closure make items located there unavailable as well? As in, should they not be shown in search results, etc?
This could impact some other logic if those branches need to completely disappear... Just a thought, Nick On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:27 PM, BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:37:54 +0200 > From: Magnus Enger <[email protected]> > To: Koha list <[email protected]> > Subject: [Koha] How to handle a temporarily closed branch? > Message-ID: > <CABg6UYGPi4=leq1o58dxr3eck9gfqassoac9fonkghnylcx...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi! > > Oslo Public Library needs to close some of its branches every now and > then. How are y'all handling that in Koha? > > ... > > Anyone got any thoughts on this? Better ways to do it? Angles we are missing? > > > Magnus, > Currently, what we do for our schools during the summer is... > > 1) Hide the schools from being chosen as pickup locations. Here is an > example of our jQuery for a single branch: > > Staff jQuery: > $("#pickup option[value='SILVERHILL'],select[name='pickup'] > option[value='SILVERHILL']").hide(); > > OPAC jQuery: > $("option[value='SILVERHILL']").hide(); > > 2) Update the holds policies under the circulations rules for that library to > No Holds Allowed for each type you use. > > This works pretty well, except that currently Next Available Holds are not > honoring this rule. I've reported this in a bug. > > Christopher Brannon > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
