[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14170] branchtransfers items need to be cancelled when on loan or a waiting reserve

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Mon May 11 16:49:25 CEST 2015


http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14170

--- Comment #2 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
I'm wondering if this ticket should address a more pressing issue.  It is
really perplexing as to why we are tracking the status of an item in 4 or more
tables.  I can find the status of an item in the items, reserves,
branchtransfers and issues tables, if not others.  This is extremely
inefficient, and possibly the reason statuses get jumbled in Koha, I'm finding,
on a regular basis.

Why not have an itemstatus table that keeps track of an item if it is not
available?  The reserves table should really only keep track of who is next in
the reserves.  On loan, waiting, transfers, and even damaged, lost, withdrawn,
etc could all be tracked in one table.  You could even put the status of on
cart for recently returned items in this table.

This is an area of Koha that could really use some attention and streamlining,
in my opinion.  If I am wrong, that is fine.  I just think it should be
discussed more.  It just seems like it could be a lot easier to troubleshoot
and eliminate dual statuses.

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