[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25784] New: Flag to make individual items non-holdable

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.koha-community.org]

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25784

            Bug ID: 25784
           Summary: Flag to make individual items non-holdable
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 19.11
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Hold requests
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: fiona.borthwick at ptfs-europe.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com

Items can be made non-holdable by item type - can set the 'holds policy' in the
'Default hold policy by item type' area.

This works fine if we have a set of items that should be non-holdable.

The NOT_LOAN authorised value can also play a role in identifying items that
can be placed on hold.
e.g. -1 = Ordered (holdable), 1 = Not for loan (non-holdable)

Problems arise however if only individual items should be non-holdable or if
there are specific collections (identified by ccode) that should be
non-holdable BUT these items can go out on loan.

We have a customer who have a set of items that belong in a specific collection
(ccode). These are a mixutre of item types (e.g. Book, Audio Book etc) that
link to different circ rules. All these items can go out on loan.

In this case we cannot really advise allocating a new item type as loan periods
differ by current item types. We could of course then duplicate the item type -
e.g. have BK (Book) and BK-NH (Book Non-holdable) but this adds unnecessary
complexity and would have implications on the circulation rules!

It is not really an option to add a NOT_LOAN status to these records as this
would mean that staff would have to override a checkout transaction each time
and there would be problems at the self issue machines. The status would also
not look correct.

It would be really good if we could add some flag into the item record or find
some other method to mark items as non-holdable.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are watching all bug changes.