[Koha-devel] Can we do away with items.onloan?

[Manos PETRIDIS]

Surely, an item's checkout date and/or date due do not belong to the
bibliographic marcxml field. What if we have more than one copies of a
certain book for example?

MP

Στις Παρ, 18 Μαΐ 2018 στις 9:26 μμ ο χρήστης Barton Chittenden <
barton at bywatersolutions.com> έγραψε:

> One of my first trouble-shooting experiences with Koha involved a report
> of search results where an item was showing as 'available', but the detail
> showed it checked out to a patron. Some helpful bywaterian pointed me to
> items.onloan, and issues.date_due, and showed me that they didn't match. A
> database update and a zebra re-index later, and the problem was solved.
>
> We've never figured out the circumstances under which these get out of
> sync... we always find out about it after the fact. I'm sure that we could
> find everywhere that they're written, and put the writes to the items table
> and the issues table into a single transaction... but wouldn't it be better
> to simply add the due date to the marcxml record from the issues table at
> the time of indexing and remove the possibility of error entirely?
>
> It's a paper-cut of a problem, but it's always bothered me.
>
> --Barton
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