[Koha-devel] Hide records on Leader 05 = d in OPAC

[David Cook]

Hi all:

 

Recently, http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11084 was
pushed to master. It adds a cronjob which deletes bibliographic records, if
their LDR05 is "d" (ie status deleted).

 

While I'm all for that, I'm thinking that it would also be a good idea to
hide these records with LDR05 "d" in the OPAC before the cronjob is run.

 

We can't necessarily rely on all Koha instances running this cronjob, nor
can we rely on the frequency. Shouldn't we be hiding these records from the
OPAC as soon as they're marked as "deleted"? 

 

I've opened a bug for this purpose:
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15537

 

It should be a pretty easy change, especially when using special attribute
@attr 14=1 to avoid past OpacSuppression problems, but I thought I'd ask
folk if it's something they'd be interested in. We'd probably still want to
see these records in the Staff Client, as we want to be able to find all
records in the database in the Staff Client.

 

I admit that I have a special interest in this where I might be overlaying
existing records using a mostly empty skeleton record generated from an
OAI-PMH identifier and a OAI-PMH deleted status (OAI-PMH doesn't send
metadata for deleted records). I'd match the existing record in Koha using
the identifier, and then set LDR05 to "d" in accordance with the OAI-PMH
deleted status. Then, that record would disappear from the OPAC, so that end
users don't see this skeleton record. 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

 

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