[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10314] CanItemBeReserved does not respect the holds policies

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10314

--- Comment #16 from Barton Chittenden <barton at bywatersolutions.com> ---
I believe that the ReservesControlBranch syspref is at the root of this
problem. Consider:

Title "The Hobbit, first edition"
Item type "Valuable Book"

Patron "Candice (Candy) Fingers" comes from "Park Place" branch, which allows
10 holds on items of type "Valuable Book". Candice has 9 valuable books checked
out.

The Park Place branch already has its copy of "The Hobbit, First Edition"
checked out, but there is a copy at the Baltic Avenue branch. The Baltic Avenue
branch only allows one hold on items of type "Valuable Book".

So:

If ReservesControlBranch is set to "Patron's Home Branch", Candy Fingers will
be able to reserve "The Hobbit" from Baltic Avenue, which violates Baltic
Avenue's hold limits for that item.

Now let's say that Branch "Boardwalk", allows 14 items of type "Valuable Book"
to be checked out.

If ReservesControlBranch is set to "Item's Home Branch", Candy Fingers may then
reserve the first editions of "The Hobbit", "The Fellowship of the Rings", "The
TWo Towers" and "The Return of the King" (all of which have item type "Valuable
Book"). She has 13 Valuable books on hold, and the circ staff at "Park Place"
is overwhelmed cleaning sticky fingerprints off of valuable books, and
complains that Candice violated their circ rules by reserving more valuable
books than their circ rules allow.

There *must* be a ReservesControlBranch option that allows *both* sets of
reserve rules to be checked.

Whether or not it even makes sense to restrict ReservesControlBranch to either
"It's Home Branch" or "Patron's Home Branch" is a matter that can be debated by
the community, but the option to observe both sets of rules *must* be
available.

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