Jennifer,
If you are not doing so, while the bug is still around, I suggest you use Item Status to edit so that you can edit a number of items at one time using the Actions for Catalogers menu. You can import a file of barcodes that need to be edited (you can create the file from a report. I would chop it into workable chunks), then highlight 20 or so at a time, edit volumes, then edit item attributes (or vice versa). If you try to edit to many at a time, it will take a long time for the system to respond, so you may want to experiment to get the optimum number. You can run through a list pretty quickly. If the system is adding empty volumes with the new call number, rather than deleting, you should transfer the item from the old call number to the new one. Or delete all the empty vols (I think there may be a script for that) and edit the old call numbers/items in Item status. I think the later would be easier since you can do so several at a time where transferring the items has to be done one at a time. For those that have already been deleted, I think you may need to undelete the volumes under the hood. I don't know how to do that but I am sure others on the list can tell you. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235.7128 404.235.7201, fax [email protected] www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines From: Open-ils-general [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function? Hi Jennifer, There is an existing bug on this issue in Launchpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1040686 Kathy On 07/23/2015 03:14 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: All - We are experiencing what we think is a bug, but maybe we are just mis-understanding something. When we edit an item with the "edit items / Volumes per bib" function, it ADDS a second, empty call number record. (We can see it via the Holdings Maintenance screen). All we want to do is to CHANGE a call number on a record. We DON'T want to create a second call number record with no items attached. It would be nice to also change the copy location at the same time (what is this combo function for, if not that??). But all we get is a second empty record. Not an actual update of the current items / volumes. What is going on here? Is this a bug or something? Why is this occurring? Is something wrong with this combo edit function? However, when we edit the item with the "Edit Volume" option only, it does just what we expect - it changes only the call number and updates it. It does not create a second record. Then we have to go into the "Edit Item Attributes" option to fix the copy location. Now all is good. On top of that, since we have discovered this problem, we have been DELETING volumes and REPLACING them with the same barcode from the original, in "holdings maintenance." So, now the system thinks we have deleted that volume / copy. When I run a report, it has marked those as "deleted" with the indicator, but they are ACUTALLY STILL THERE! Oh now what? How do I remove the deleted indicator from those records? They are not actually deleted!! Please tell me how to fix all of this! It is a nightmare. All we are trying to do is to move our Juvenile items from one copy location to another and change all the call numbers. What gives!? Thanks! Jennifer -------------------------------------------------- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS Crazy Kinlaw Library - Asbury University One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390 859-858-3511 ext. 2269 [email protected] -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 [email protected] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
