[Koha-devel] RFC - remove circ/transferstodo.pl prior to general release

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

As noted in bug 2171
(http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2171), the
transfers to-do report is not working.  The intention of the report
seems to be:

* get a list of hold requests grouped by branches; specifically, those
that already have a specific item associated with them to fill the
request (i.e., reserves.priority = 0 and reserves.itemnumber is not
null) but have not been transferred yet (i.e., don't have a
branchtransfers record).

* let the operator initiate the transfer (this doesn't work at all at present)

However, by the time any given hold request has priority set to 0, a
branchtransfer has already been initiated.  In addition, the help for
the report implies that this is for potential transfers that are going
out other branches; however, the only time this report shows results
is when items are due into the current branch, thus duplicating the
functionality of circ/transferstoreceive.pl.

Is anybody using this report?  If so, can you explain what it is
supposed to do?  If not, I suggest that this be removed prior to the
general release.

By the way, there seems to be a need for a general report of items
that are in transit from one branch to another and which would catch
items that haven't arrived in a timely fashion.  In its current form,
circ/transferstodo.pl isn't it, but I think such a report should be
considered for 3.2.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
Koha Application Developer
LibLime
galen.charlton at liblime.com
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