[Koha-bugs] [Bug 3536] Checked In item requiring transfer does not consistently trigger transfer prompt

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3536





--- Comment #1 from Sharon Moreland <smoreland at nekls.org>  2009-08-17 16:21:39 ---
This bug goes with 3298, an enhancement request for a "check item status"
function that is more benign than the Check In function. 

A Scenario:
An item belonging to Library A is returned to Library B after being checked out
to a patron from Library B and the staff at Library B fail to see the transit
prompt and accidentally reshelve the item.  The item is later found.  A staff
member from Library B scans the barcode using the Check In function.  Koha
'clears' the transit and changes the current location from Library A to Library
B, rather than displaying the transit prompt again.  With Koha is it works now,
the staff member should have searched for the item via a catalog search, then
referred to the holdings table to see the status of the item.   

In our consortium, the current location and homebranch should only mis-match if
an item is: in transit to a location to fill a  hold, on the holds shelf for a
patron, or checked out.  I would argue that an item in transit to a location to
fill a hold should NOT have a status of 'available', but that's a different
enhancement request, I suppose. 


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