https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15516 --- Comment #340 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Christopher Brannon from comment #338)
Is the group hold going to count as one placed hold or count for every item in the group??
At the moment, each member of a group hold counts as its own hold.
If it is going to show as multiple holds, then it becomes a problem for anyone that uses it. The group hold HAS to count as a single hold for this to be useful and not exploited by patrons.
I'm not sure what you mean here by "exploited". To me, each member of a group hold counting as a hold is problematic only in terms of hold limits. If you had a limit of 10 holds, and they create 1 hold group with 10 members, then they've exhausted their limit, and that's not necessarily fair to patrons.
Without looking at the code, logically, it seems like if you have each group hold count as some kind of of proxy hold in the hold system, when Koha looks to see how many holds there are, it should also see how many group holds there are, and each group for that user should just reflect as one hold. I may be over simplifying this.
I wouldn't say over simplifying heh. It's quite complex. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.