[Koha-devel] Hide records on Leader 05 = d in OPAC

[Colin Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 8:44 PM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:
> > We can’t necessarily rely on all Koha instances running this cronjob, nor
> > can we rely on the frequency. Shouldn’t we be hiding these records from the
> > OPAC as soon as they’re marked as “deleted”?
> >
> > I’ve opened a bug for this purpose:
> > http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15537
> 
> I am in mild disfavor of this proposal, particularly as implemented in
> current patch. Using a cronjob to delete records where Leader/05 is
> set to 'd' is useful when the library has arranged their workflow such
> that they *know* that Leader/05 = 'd' is being used consistently to
> signify that a record is no longer wanted. However, for a library that
> has not hitherto cared about the values in that position,
> unconditionally suppressing the display of such records could come as
> an unwelcome surprise.
> 
I'd echo Galen's caution, especially if records are being imported, I've
seen cases where trying to do this has revealed that records in use
locally have inherited a deleted status from an upstream provider and
does not reflect local status.

Colin

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