[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11043] rename biblioitems.itemtype

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11043

Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #8 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
Discussion here boiled down to the fact, that UNIMARC users have not mapped
biblioitems.itemtype to the itemtypes authorised value.

I believe this needs a different fix than suggested and is much more complex.
We rely on items.itype and bilbioitems.itemtype to be the same list of
itemtypes in more and more spots. Some I know of:

- Suggesting the itemtype for the item when cataloguing
- Search: In MARC21 both are indexed as itemtype, allowing to easily search for
records without items too (only MARC21?)
- Article requests on records without items
- Hold limit checking

If UNIMARC uses the field differently, there is a bigger discussion to be had
on how to handle this to give both MARC formats the same behaviour in circ etc.
I believe if necessary document type should be a separate thing.

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