2015-03-19 9:03 GMT-03:00 Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>:
Maybe Koha should let you define exactly which situations imply item is unavailable/not_for_loan. ...
as a result of a search, which is misleading for the user, since it is still possible to check that item out.
As far as I understand it, the goal of the display in the OPAC is to prevent patrons from looking for items on the shelf which are not available because they are damaged. This is in contrast to focusing on preventing the user from checking out something which is damaged.
That's not always the case. On undeveloped countries is very common to have most of the collection on closed shelf, and also allow loans of little bit damaged books. Anyway, there is something contradictory: damaged items are marked as unavailable (itemavailable = 0) on item-status.inc, but in fact *they are* available, since user can check them out (force_checkout permission have no effect). If for any reason librarian want to hide specific items they already have OpacHiddenItems syspref (BTW, I never found on any Koha the OpacHiddenItems.txt <https://github.com/fredericd/Koha/blob/master/docs/opac/OpacHiddenItems.txt> ).
I agree that it would be nice to have more fine-grained control over both aspects of it.
Yes, indeed! :-) Do you agree we have a bug (the contradiction) and a wish (fine-grained control) here?