Hi Paul, On 1/25/08, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
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imo, a book being transfered should display "1 item being transfered from X to Y" (in staff interface) and "Not available" (in opac) a book reserved should be displayed likely.
Sounds reasonable, but this definitely should be configurable, as some libraries may want to also have to OPAC explicitly say "in transit" or "in transit from X to Y" rather than just a plain "not available".
The SAN-OP has this feature in it's specific 3.0 version, running live since 1 year now, and it display those information.
How could we reintroduce this behaviour ? the easiest solution would be, in to introduce a test for that in C4/Search.pm/sub searchResults. what do you think of this solution ? Another one would be to have new fields in items table, to store a transfer or a reserve, but I think it's too complex.
I don't think a new items field would necessary, as the transfer status should be derivable from branchtransfers and the request status from reserves. Perhaps there should be an omnibus function in C4::Circulation or C4::Items that checks all of the various fields that describe an item's status and returns a nicely structured result that in turn can be parsed for display in the staff or OPAC search results. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709