[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 : Item status bulk change

[Jesse Weaver]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Henri-Damien LAURENT <
laurenthdl at alinto.com> wrote:

> Joe Atzberger a écrit :
> >
> >     what about adding a feature to bulkchange a given virtual shelf ?
> That
> >     would be an already existing place to remember a batch.
> >     We could also port some feature that exist on OPAC to deal with
> >     basket/lists to staff interface.
> >     Then, have a bulkstatuschange applied on a virtual shelf.
> >
> >
> > Only if you are talking about changing biblio records.  Unlike their
> > analog analogues, Virtual Shelves don't contain items.  (And shouldn't.)
> >
> > --joe
> I don't agree.
> They could/should also be able to contain items.
> I see no reason why you want to limit shelf element to biblios.
> For instance, it should be possible to create a virtualshelf of items in
> order to process them,
> like send them to "reliure", set a special status, create a command,
> recall them back, send them to another library.
> Imho, this type of things should eventually be possible via a
> virtualshelf, just need to be quite general on what a virtual shelf
> contains and display actions depending on elements type (It would just
> need to add a type of element to virtualshelves.)
>
> But maybe i am daydreaming.
> --
> Henri-Damien LAURENT
>
>
I think the reason for this is because virtualshelves were never intended to
refer to specific items, merely bibs, since they were used as simple
collections for the public and staff's use. If we make something like what
you want, it should probably be entirely separate.
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