[Koha-bugs] [Bug 33301] Request for adding a facility to remember the previous item location and switch back to it upon check-in

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33301

Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrewfh at dubcolib.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrewfh at dubcolib.org> ---
This is technically possible, though I'd love to see a more official and
codified process. The database includes items.permanent_location, but Koha
really only expects you to use to store the item's actual location while it's
set to either a temporary status set when the item is first cataloged (defined
in NewItemsDefaultLocation) or "CART" for cart_to_shelf cron. By default, any
edit to items.location outside of cataloging a new item or setting an item to
CART at checkin will *also* update permanent_location, thereby messing up what
you're trying to do. But you can make location and permanent_location
independently editable and then make items change from their temporary location
to their permanent location at checkin.

To do so:
- Create a new 952 subfield, editable, managed within the Items tab, set to use
the LOC authorised value. You'll have to repeat this setup in each framework in
which you have items where you want to use a temporary shelving location.
- Go to Koha To MARC Mapping in administration and connect the subfield you
just created to items.permanent_location
- go to system preferences set UpdateItemLocationOnCheckin to update all items
toe their permanent shelving location at checkin
(https://koha-community.org/manual/latest/en/html/circulationpreferences.html#updateitemlocationoncheckin)
- Pull up an item record and see that the edit screen shows both location and
permanent location. Confirm that you can edit either without changing the
other.
- Check in an item where the two values don't match, confirm it updates to the
permanent_location

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