Hi, David! In our latest exchange, on 9 July 2021 at 9:42 [JST], I received from you: Koha uses the "The ever popular do-nothing-approach".
In theory, this is problematic and certainly bothers me, but in practice I think it's fairly rare that two staff members are working on the same record at the same time. Locking and lock timeouts come with a lot of complexity, and I think the majority of libraries would actually prefer risk accidental overwrites rather than lock contention and session timeouts.
I would love to see a locking feature added, but I don't know if it's anyone's priority at the moment.
It's disappointing that there doesn't seem to be a locking feature in Koha. At least in practice, simultaneous use of records is rare or less frequent in my library. But there was an incident last week when a locking feature would have been useful, it occurred to me in retrospect. I too thought of locking timeouts. After all, I wouldn't want a record to be locked after hours and hours of disuse. I guess I'll be filing another feature request if such a request is not already on file. Thanks for the response. -- 気を付けて。 /ki wo tukete/ = Take care. -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley Tsukimino 1-Chome 5-2 Tsukimino Gaadenia #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken 〒242-0002 JAPAN +1-301-741-7122 [US cell] +81-80-4356-2178 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk@aol.com [h] cmkelleymls@gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.