[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24857] Add ability to create "Volumes" for records, and assign items to volumes

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24857

--- Comment #149 from Kyle M Hall <kyle at bywatersolutions.com> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #126)
> This one is a little scary already, but going in for a first review :)
> 
> 1) QA script
Fixed!

> 2) Doubled up use statement in Biblio.pm

Fixed!

> 3) REST API
> 
> I'd love to have Tomas take a look on the REST API bits here. 

I'll ask Tomas to take a look!

> 
> 4) sysprefs.sql

Fixed!

> 
> 5) Pref (question)
> 
> Enable|Don't enable
> volumes feature to allow collecting groups of items on a record into volumes.
> 
> Does it mean the items have to be from the same record or could they be from
> different ones?

We decided early on that volumes would have contain only items within the same
record.

> 6) Table configuration
> 
> The new volumn column on the holdings table needs to be added to the table
> configuration options.

This table is not a datatable so that doesn't really apply.

> 7) GUI
> 
> "Create new" on the items table would work nicer as "Create new volume" or
> "New volume" to give context to translators and for better accessibility.

Fixed!

> Future improvements:
> It might be nice to offer a kind of grouped view for the items in volumes...
> but I am not sure yet how this would work best. 
> It might be nice to show the volumes in the OPAC as well.

Agreed. If volume management turns out to be popular, that would be an easy
extension to this work.

> 8) Use case and future plans?
> 
> Can you tell a bit about in what context or use case this partner is using
> this? Serials?

Our current and only use case at this time is for volume level holds. Some
libraries keep different volumes on the same record ( imagine different seasons
of a TV series ). In these cases, a bib level hold won't work if you only want
Season 1, but if there are 3 copies of season one, you wouldn't want an item
level hold either. Volume level holds solve this problem.

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