[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30942] Why can I place a recall on a bib when no items are on loan?

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30942

--- Comment #6 from Aleisha Amohia <aleisha at catalyst.net.nz> ---
The button to 'Place recall' always shows, because the libraries who were
sponsoring the development of this feature for the past few years before it was
upstreamed wanted it to be there.

This way, users would know the library used recalls, and then be blocked if a
particular record could not be recalled, and they could place a reserve
instead.

As I've said many times before, recalls is not the same as holds, and if you
look at the code, there are many differences. Recalls could never use the same
code as holds without creating if/else conditions literally everywhere and
turning Koha into a very non-scalable, hard to modify, hard to test, system.
You don't want to potentially break holds by modifying recalls, and vice versa
- they are different services in a library.

You're welcome to write a development that wraps this button in a syspref, but
this isn't a bug, so please don't remove the ability to have the button there
if there aren't recallable items.

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