[Koha-bugs] [Bug 29106] Can we get rid of Koha::Item->effective_itemtype

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29106

--- Comment #11 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
I am not sure we can have it always accurate - I know libraries use this a lot
for records without items (articles, electronic resources, series records, set
records, etc.), so manual interaction will always be required there to make it
accurate.

We could add an automatism to update the record level itemtype when all items
have the same itemtype - but this might not be what some libraries want (it
would fit ours). But if the itemtypes for the items are different, this would
not work. 
Use case in academics: one item has a not for loan item type to always remain
in the library for reference, while additional copies can be checked out

I think especially in some French/UNIMARC libraries, there were different
authorised valued used for bibioitems (document type) and items - something we
would need to clarify is not an intended workflow and maybe help provide
workarounds for.

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