[Koha-devel] feasibility of external circulation updating Koha items table availability

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/2/17 Christopher Curry <ccurry at amphilsoc.org>:
>> First, am I correct that updating the availability status of an item in the
>> Koha Opac requires only that we update this field (items.onloan)?
>
> No, that's not sufficient - it would also be necessary to update the
> 952 field in the MARC bib record corresponding to that item so that
> the item status change can be indexed.  Running
> misc/maintenance/sync_items_marc_bib.pl periodically would do it, with
> some tweaking to update only the bibs whose items have been updated
> from Aeon.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that (possibly with the use of a
dummy patron record) it might also be possible to accomplish this
using Koha's SIP2 interface.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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