[Koha-devel] serials & items (primarily for chris)

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello everybody,

One of my libraries would be happy with a new feature : creating items 
on the fly when a serial arrives.
the item would have to contain : barcode / itemcallnumber / branch / 
itemnote

iirc, chris, you told me you made something in this direction. Am I 
wrong ? do you plan to commit something about this ?

otherwise, I could do it. Would be fairly easy I bet :
* add a systempreference add / don't add item when recieving issues
* if YES : add 4 inputs in the screen where the librarian recieves issues
* when saving issue status, if a barcode has been typed :
- create a hash
- use MARCkoha2marcitem to create the MARC record for the item
- NEWnewitem to create the item
- that's all folks !

The second step, a little bit harder : save the link between the item 
and the serial issue (items & serials tables). That means we would have 
to create a new field in items table.
And then, of course, use the link when showing the item in OPAC (like 
showing the serial issue number)

Feel free to comment.

PS : no need to do this in 2.2 atm, maybe just something to add to 
RoadMap for 3.0 ;-)
-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)