[Koha-devel] Holds queue report

[Joe Atzberger]

All good thoughts, in particular the design approach in #3 to maintain
freshness is a great new idea.

--joe

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> Now that we're up and running on 3.0, we're discovering some aspects
> of the Holds Queue report that are not working for us:
>
> 1. Title. The list displays the title (245a) and only the title. No
> subtitle, no  name of part/section of a work (245p), no  number of
> part/section of a work (245n). This makes it impossible to pull some
> items based only on what's in the report (picture being in the stacks
> with a printed copy, wishing you could click through for more info).
> In our [custom-built] 2.x report we had barcodes, at least.
>
> 2. Damaged items. The holds queue report includes items which have
> been marked as damaged. I would think that if the holds queue process
> found a bib record with more than one available item that it should
> only list available items which are not marked as damaged--perhaps
> based on the "AllowHoldsOnDamagedItems" preference?
>
> 3. Freshness. I realize the process for building the Holds Queue
> report must be intensive or it wouldn't rely on a cron job. But what
> about a process for taking the processed and stored Holds Queue report
> and filtering it based on more current availability information? The
> display of the report could include a pass to check for current status
> so that even if the Holds Queue report hadn't regenerated for an hour,
> it would still hide items on the list which had been made waiting or
> lost.
>
> I welcome any opinions or ideas anyone might have,
>
>  Owen
> --
> Web Developer
> Athens County Public Libraries
> http://www.myacpl.org <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel>
>
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