It appears that there's no way to get a list of holds to be pulled emailed automatically, i.e., staff need to run the "Holds to pull" report manually on a regular basis. Is this correct?
I imagine you could set up a cronjob that periodically e-mails that report.
What should happen next? The report says "The following holds have not been filled. Please retrieve them and check them in." What does "check in" mean here? We shouldn't check the material out to the patron as s/he won't have it in hand yet.
When you run the item through the checkin screen, it will tell you that there is a request for this item and ask you to fulfill the hold with it.
The OPAC updates the item's status to "On hold", so that's taken care of, but patrons have no indication of how many patrons are ahead of them in the queue. Is this a new feature that others would like to see as well?
That certainly could be added, but I imagine patrons would get upset if they found they had been bumped down the list for some reason. Other than that non-technical issue, it would not be very difficult.
Any other changes in holds management planned for v3.2?
I haven't heard of anything. I wrote a large reserves update awhile back for dev_week that has been on the todo list for 3.x, but hasn't made it in yet. Kyle
Thank you,
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha