[Koha-bugs] [Bug 15516] Allow to place a hold on first available item from a group of titles

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15516

--- Comment #340 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Christopher Brannon from comment #338)
> Is the group hold going to count as one placed hold or count for every item in the group?? 

At the moment, each member of a group hold counts as its own hold.

> If it is
> going to show as multiple holds, then it becomes a problem for anyone that
> uses it.  The group hold HAS to count as a single hold for this to be useful
> and not exploited by patrons.

I'm not sure what you mean here by "exploited". To me, each member of a group
hold counting as a hold is problematic only in terms of hold limits. If you had
a limit of 10 holds, and they create 1 hold group with 10 members, then they've
exhausted their limit, and that's not necessarily fair to patrons. 

> Without looking at the code, logically, it seems like if you have each group
> hold count as some kind of of proxy hold in the hold system, when Koha looks
> to see how many holds there are, it should also see how many group holds
> there are, and each group for that user should just reflect as one hold.  I
> may be over simplifying this.

I wouldn't say over simplifying heh. It's quite complex.

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