[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24307] New: Allow loose item matching for on-order items

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24307

            Bug ID: 24307
           Summary: Allow loose item matching for on-order items
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Cataloging
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: andrew at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

We run into this issue with libraries who are not using EDI, get their items
pre-processed by a vendor, and want on-order items to show in the catalog:
- MARC records are imported for on-order titles
- On-order items are created
- Vendor sends final MARC records including 952 tags with barcode, ccode,
location, etc
- Final records match to existing records at the bib level, but cannot match at
the item level
- Item records need to be manually touched either to add final details to
on-order items or to delete on-order items in favor of newly-created final
items

The vendor cannot give a barcode number when supplying on-order records and
(without EDI) Koha doesn't have a way to send the on-order item numbers to the
vendor to be included in the final item info.

I'm imagining something like a syspref that lets us say "if an item has
notforloan of [X], then allow item overlay without matching an itemnumber or
barcode." But as I type that I suspect there are a lot of ways it could go bad.

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