To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] search for something other than barcode in
checkout screen
This thread raises an interesting dev situation/question. If one is trying to
help a library pull Evergreen together and they are in a remote situation, what
is the best practice
for my part, for better or worse, I use live items that i know are currently
not checked out. In my rural library setting this tends to be safe since I
choose titles that have low circ stats. I do, however run the risk that a
parton will try and check out my copy of Zen and The Art of
It seems this is a feature that is only important when you are playing with
a demo server sitting at home without library material! Thanks, Thomas.
Lori
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote:
No, there is no way to do that from the checkout screen. Barcodes
for something other than barcode in
checkout screen
It seems this is a feature that is only important when you are playing with a
demo server sitting at home without library material! Thanks, Thomas.
Lori
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote
From the checkout screen, is there some way to search for a item to check
out by something other than the barcode (author, title, record number)?
It doesn't appear to be so based on the 2.2 demo system.
Lori
No, there is no way to do that from the checkout screen. Barcodes only.
I am not sure why you would want to, either. If you don't have the
item in front of you, why are you checking it out?
Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com:
