https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15505 --- Comment #8 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon@cdalibrary.org> --- (In reply to George Williams (NEKLS) from comment #7)

Working in a large consortium, I definitely want something like this.

If a patron looks at the OPAC and sees a title with 30 items spread around at different locations and 20 are already checked out and there are 15 unfilled requests on the remaining 10 items the existing message can be confusing if you're not at a branch where a copy is actually available to be grabbed off of the shelf.

Maybe the issue could be resolved by allowing for the wording of the wording of the "Pending hold" message to be customized to suit the needs of the library. If the message that displays when there is a pending hold on an item could be tied to an authorised value, then each library could customize the description of the item's availability in the staff client and the OPAC to suit the needs of their library. If, for example, I want an item that is hold_fill_targets to display a message that the item has a hold on it then I can change the authorised value to read "Pending hold" but if I want it to display the same availability as any other item on the shelf, I could change the authorised value to read "Available."

George

I agree with George. This feature is needed, yet, we need to do it in a way that won't jeopardize how some libraries already use it. If it can be setup in a way we can tailor it, that would be great. Christopher -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.