Hi folks, Just a heads up that I've just added a new table, cron utility, and report that is a temporary solution to a much needed holds targeting workflow for the larger Koha libraries. I've documented it in my commit message which I'll reproduce here: This patch adds a cron script to be run periodically that populates the tmp_holdsqueue table. This is an alternative holds targeting workflow that is more suitable for multi-location libraries than the default holds picklist report. Note to documentation writers: this summary should be added to any holds documentation as an overview of the available methods for holds fulfillment. This alternative holds workflow assumes an expectation that the system should target a specific available item at one location for a given hold request, attempt to fulfill the hold with that item, and if unable to fulfill, select an available item at another location to fulfill the hold. This is quite different than the default Koha workflow assumption, which is that holds are 'broadcast' to all locations and the first to retrieve it is used to fulfill the hold. How it works: This script weights available items at locations for holds based on options specified in two system preferences: StaticHoldsQueueWeight Allows the library to specify a list of library location codes -- if used alone, it will rank the list statically, selecting the top-ranking, left-most available location to be added to the picklist. RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight If RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight and StaticHoldsQueueWeight are set, the list of library codes in the StaticHoldsQueueWeight syspref are randomized rather than statically ranked. If RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight alone is set, the list of all available library codes is used to randomize the weight. If neither syspref is set, the list is statically ranked according to how they are pulled out of the system database. NOTE: This has not yet been tested with item-level holds Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS