[Koha-bugs] [Bug 15505] Mark Hold Items 'On hold' instead of 'Available'

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15505

--- Comment #7 from George Williams (NEKLS) <george at nekls.org> ---
Working in a large consortium, I definitely want something like this.

If a patron looks at the OPAC and sees a title with 30 items spread around at
different locations and 20 are already checked out and there are 15 unfilled
requests on the remaining 10 items the existing message can be confusing if
you're not at a branch where a copy is actually available to be grabbed off of
the shelf.

Maybe the issue could be resolved by allowing for the wording of the wording of
the "Pending hold" message to be customized to suit the needs of the library. 
If the message that displays when there is a pending hold on an item could be
tied to an authorised value, then each library could customize the description
of the item's availability in the staff client and the OPAC to suit the needs
of their library.  If, for example, I want an item that is hold_fill_targets to
display a message that the item has a hold on it then I can change the
authorised value to read "Pending hold" but if I want it to display the same
availability as any other item on the shelf, I could change the authorised
value to read "Available."

George

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