[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10378] Enable checked out items to be transferred without returning them

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10378

Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> changed:

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             Status|Needs Signoff               |In Discussion

--- Comment #6 from Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> That's not a bad idea. However, another issue is that Koha has simply not
> been written with the idea an item can be checkout out and in transit at the
> same time. It appears that there are parts of Koha that will assume a
> checked out item isn't being transferred and not display the in transit
> message.

Indeed -- from the patron's point of view, the item is no longer in her
possession, and she has returned it to a library.  And it's easy to understand
why Koha makes the assumption that checked out == in the patron's nominal
possession, therefore can't be transiting between libraries.

Maybe a different way to tackle the problem is add a way of keeping track that
a loan was returned to the "wrong" library?  That way, the loan can still be
checked in while providing some hooks for functionality to penalize the patron,
if that's what your customer is after.

A starting point might be added a returnbranch column to issues.  That would be
useful for other purposes, particularly for consortia and large multi-branch
systems.

Anyway, due to our mutual agreement that this idea needs more work, I'm setting
this bug to In Discussion.

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