https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31168 Bug ID: 31168 Summary: Temporary Item Locations Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: 21.11 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Cataloging Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: cbrannon@cdalibrary.org QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl There is a needed item field when it comes to locations. Right now, if you put in a permanent location, if an item is returned, the location is temporarily changed to the cart location, and then back. However, there are other scenarios that are getting overlooked. Sometimes an item lives on a new books shelving location. Sometimes it lives on a display. These locations are temporary, and these items eventually have to make their way back to their permanent shelving location. There is no field for a temporary location, so we end up using the permanent location. And because we do this, we are unable to automate the process of setting it back to its regular shelving location when it is time, because there is nothing for the automatic item modifications by age tool to look at to determine what the permanent shelving location needs to be changed too. I propose that a temporary shelving location field be added, where we can select from the shelving locations the place that it will live for a little while, and the permanent shelving location can be set where it will usually live. We can then use the automatic item modifications by age tool to set this back after a set time. Ideally, it would be better if we could automate this from the record itself, perhaps setting a temporarily shelving location cutoff date. Otherwise, the temporary shelving location is only good as long as a rule exists for it in the tool. Having the cutoff date in the item record would make this extremely easy to use. Maybe fore a little extra, we could have a couple buttons next to the field with pre-defined (in preferences) lengths of time. For example, one button for New Books, and another for Displays. Click whichever button, and it would set the date x days from today based on the pref. Or you could manually pick a date from a date picker as to when it would revert back. Once that date comes around, that temporarily location can either be cleared or remain, but the permanent shelving location is displayed past the date. If a date is not entered, the temporary location is used indefinitely. And of course, if there is no temporary shelving location, the permanent location is used. Some of this could be done in stages, if not all at once, but this would be a fantastic step forward for libraries that utilize temporary placement and shelving. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.