[Koha-bugs] [Bug 21120] New: item-level types and advanced searches

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            Bug ID: 21120
           Summary: item-level types and advanced searches
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 17.11
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: System Administration
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: emjhet at pa.net
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com

In Koha -- Administration -- System Preferences -- Cataloging -- Item Record --

under "item-level-itypes" we have selected "use the item type of the {specific
item} as the authoritative item type (for determining circulation and fine
rules, for displaying an item type icon on either opac detail or results page,
etc)."

however, when you do an advanced search for an item type, the search results
pull from both the item record AND the bibliographic record. 

I have a few problems with this. 
1) How was I suppose to know that, when doing an advanced search, after
selecting what I wanted as my authoritative item type, that advanced searches
were not covered in the "etc" of the description? When I run reports requesting
these item types they could not be found, because the reports were looking for
item records with the specified item types, not bibliographic records with a
specific field in the 942$c. It almost seems as though this is a Koha to MARC
mapping issue, except only one MARC field can be mapped to any one Koha field
and in this case, two fields are being mapped to the same field. When the item
record item type and the bibliographic 942$c were the same, it did not result
in twice the number of results -- so???
2) I have read the Koha manual. I have never found a place where terms are
defined. Is there somewhere that this information is found -- where it states
"when you search for item type in the opac field A, B, and C is searched." That
does not seem to be what the Koha to MARC mapping indicates. And that language
does not seem to match the Koha Search Indexes. Is there no way to use the same
language to indicate the same things?

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