Hi all, in case it hasn't been obvious up until now, I'm helping Rob and Sandra out with their move to Koha. On Fri, 04 Aug 2006, Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote:
Robert McKenna a écrit :
The item type is linked to each individual item along with its barcode, location etc. We have all of our tab 10 items in 995. We cannot get Koha to recognise this as an item type as it is in the items table as opposed to the biblioitems table.
This problem seems (if I understand correctly) to be a difference in design. - the alice/oasis system relates: biblio -> item -> itemtype -> borrowingrules - koha relates: biblio -> bibliotype -> borrowingrules So apparently Oasis/Alice allows more granular application of borrower rules (per copy as opposed to per title).
In order to solve this problem, you have to audit your base to know if you can have different itemtypes 995$z for a biblio.
If it would be the case, then you would have IMHO (but Joshua or more US-MARC professionnal could tell you) to create as many biblios as different itemtypes you have in for one and store them..
This doesn't seem like a very attractive solution. A possible workaround which occurs to me is to make use of the fact that rules appear to be branch-specific. So, you create several branches XXX-RT (regular term), XXX-ST (short term), XXX-REF (reference) for the one physical library. Then, you assign items to different branches based on their previous "item type". This is a bit of a kludge though. Does anyone see this causing us problems? Could I ask the Koha developers: Is it a deliberate design decision that rules must be assigned per bibliotype rather than per item? Would you consider a patch which changed to the more granular per-itemtype rule definition or does this go against a design the Koha project has chosen. Would it be possible to combine both so that rules are applied based on biblio and item types? Gavin