> Is there a way to place a hold on an item from the staff client in such a > way that the first one returned fulfills the hold? We are on version 2.1.
You'll want to look at meta-records and meta-record holds. To see examples of meta-records, do an Advanced Search but with the Group Formats and Editions checkbox checked. The algorithm that groups such records together can be tweaked, but I don't have any experience doing that. You can place holds on meta-records from the results page for such a search, but you can also do normal title searches, invoke the place hold UI and then click the Advanced Hold Options link. If there are other records in that record's "meta-record", their formats will be listed in that selection box labelled Acceptable Alternative Formats. Incidentally, I'd love to see meta-records exposed through a Other Formats & Editions tab in the Record Summary, if someone has the itch and tuits to make that happen. -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com | Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org
