[Koha-bugs] [Bug 32893] ILL item flag

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=32893

--- Comment #2 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
Maybe I should explain our workflow a bit.

Several of our libraries place an ILL request with an outside source, like
through WorldCat.  When the request is made, we use a framework that creates an
ILL bib and item.  The framework uses a specific not for loan status that
allows only staff to place a hold on it for the patron.  It is also given an
ILL shelving location and an ILL item type that gives it a general loan period
(which is not ideal).  If we have the barcode at that time, we enter it as
well.

When the item gets to us, we check it in to trigger the hold.  We have some
template toolkit logic to change the subject line and the wording in the hold
notice to make its own ILL notice.  The patron is notified.

Since the hold time counts against the ILL loan period, we automatically check
it out to the patron.  This is not ideal, because the system won't know if it
is picked up yet or not.  What would be more ideal is if when the patron picked
it up and checked it out, is if it would calculate the due date by deducting
how long it waited for the patron to pick it up.

We can do almost everything we need without an ILL module, but this part would
make it completely work.

Maybe we don't need a flag on the item.  But maybe a circ rule that would look
for a specific item type or status and that could trigger the special due date?

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