You can still have items of different item types attached to a single biblio; that's no problem. And you could still have patrons add the biblios to their Carts, for tagging, putting on Lists or placing Biblio-level holds (amongst many others). This should work just fine.<br>
<br>If this does break your use-case, though, you can disable the Cart for patrons by turning off opacbasket in the system preferences area.<br><br><br>-Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:06 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hansbkk@gmail.com">hansbkk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">2011/3/10 Robin Sheat <<a href="mailto:robin@catalyst.net.nz">robin@catalyst.net.nz</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">>> Or, maybe having two separate Carts, Biblios and Items, would be the<br>
>> way to go, though that seems to be overcomplicating things.<br>
><br>
> Presumably an option so that a cart can contain both items and biblios<br>
> would be a good middle-ground. A little more complex to deal with<br>
> programmatically, but if written properly it shouldn't be too bad. It<br>
> would also be easy to have a syspref that lets this be items<br>
> only/biblios only/both, as it would just have to change a bit of OPAC<br>
> UI.<br>
<br>
</div>Wow, the fact that carts are biblio-level is news to me, and actually<br>
throws a bit of a spanner in the works for my plans for using<br>
item-level item-types.<br>
<br>
I was really hoping to take advantage of the fact that I could have<br>
different types of items associated with a single biblio record. But<br>
it seems if I go this route, then I should disable Carts for patrons?<br>
Is that even an option?<br>
<br>
To review my situation with an example:<br>
<br>
> My current use case is that I have multiple media types for a single film. It's all exactly the same video, not a different edition, but one might be a disc that's playable on a consumer player (Disc-Video), another may contain computer files (Disc-Data), another combines both (Disc-Mixed), some of our VHS tapes haven't been converted yet, and some really old home movies are even on 35mm!<br>
<br>
If I catalog these as separate biblios, this will creates multiple<br>
identical copies of the biblio-level MARC data, and just different<br>
("holdings level") data in the items table, including item type. So<br>
when a patron searches for "2009 Proms Gala" they will get four<br>
identical but separate results.<br>
<br>
Also, I'm planning on using user tagging, virtual shelves, etc. which<br>
if I use duplicated biblio-level item-types will somehow need to be<br>
synchronized between duplicate biblio records - yech!<br>
<br>
Any advice would be appreciated<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ian Walls<br>Lead Development Specialist<br>ByWater Solutions<br>Phone # (888) 900-8944<br><a href="http://bywatersolutions.com">http://bywatersolutions.com</a><br><a href="mailto:ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com">ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com</a><br>
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