[Koha-bugs] [Bug 3727] New: If item type is mandatory in marc editor, itemtype is autofilled

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3727

           Summary: If item type is mandatory in marc editor, itemtype is
                    autofilled
           Product: Koha
           Version: rel_3_0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Cataloging
        AssignedTo: gmcharlt at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: cmurdock at ccfls.org
                CC: kyle.m.hall at gmail.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
 Change sponsored?: ---


In the marc editor, if the item type is marked as mandatory, the item type is
automatically filled in with the first value in the list alphabetically.  The
desired behavior would be for the default value to be empty, which would prompt
the usual mandatory warning if an actual item type isn't selected by the
librarian. Otherwise, you may end up with junk item types if the librarian
fails to change the value.

Incidentally, authorized values that are marked as mandatory do the same thing
in the marc editor; however, if you add an empty authorized value to your
authorized value list, that becomes the default value in the marc field, which
then triggers the mandatory warning if the librarian doesn't change the value. 
You can't use this workaround with item type, though, because Koha won't let
you add an empty item type.

It seems to work the same way with biblioitem-level item types and item-level
itemtypes.

I'm going to see if Kyle can add a quick patch for this.


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