Koha Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios
Everyone, I'd like to second Ian's idea about basing the cart off of items instead of biblios since our "titles" are often collections. The items are all different from one another, much as serials/journals would be. This would be of great benefit to us. Thanks.
Subject: [Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios From: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:32:36 -0500 To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>
Koha Community,
I'd like to solicit some feedback on this idea. It seems to me that we could greatly increase the utility of the Cart, both on the patron side and the staff side, if we had it work off Item records primarily instead of the Biblio record. Some things we'd be able to do from the Cart if we had this:
1. Batch Item mod 2. Move items from multiple biblios to a single new biblio, in one step 3. Print label batches 4. Place item-level holds (in addition to title-level)
Since item records all contain the biblionumbers for their Biblios, it would be a single additional step to convert the list of itemnumbers into a list of distinct biblionumbers, and do all the same biblio-level functions we do now (like biblio-level holds, emailing/printing, and adding to Lists).
Am I missing a complication in the implementation or a workflow issue that would make this untenable? What does everyone think?
Cheers,
-Ian
On 3/8/2011 5:00 PM, koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios
-- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824
Subject: [Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios From: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:32:36 -0500 To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>
Koha Community,
I'd like to solicit some feedback on this idea.Ā It seems to me that we could greatly increase the utility of the Cart, both on the patron side and the staff side, if we had it work off Item records primarily instead of the Biblio record.Ā Some things we'd be able to do from the Cart if we had this:
1. Batch Item mod 2. Move items from multiple biblios to a single new biblio, in one step 3. Print label batches 4. Place item-level holds (in addition to title-level)
Since item records all contain the biblionumbers for their Biblios, it would be a single additional step to convert the list of itemnumbers into a list of distinct biblionumbers, and do all the same biblio-level functions we do now (like biblio-level holds, emailing/printing, and adding to Lists).
Am I missing a complication in the implementation or a workflow issue
And basing the OPAC cart off the item type might help with one of my bugs: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5695 Jane Wagner Senior Project Manager LibLime, a division of PTFS Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@liblime.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Linda Culberson Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:45 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Koha Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios Everyone, I'd like to second Ian's idea about basing the cart off of items instead of biblios since our "titles" are often collections. The items are all different from one another, much as serials/journals would be. This would be of great benefit to us. Thanks. that would make this untenable?Ā What does everyone think?
Cheers,
-Ian
On 3/8/2011 5:00 PM, koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios
-- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Le 09/03/2011 14:44, Linda Culberson a écrit :
Everyone, I'd like to second Ian's idea about basing the cart off of items instead of biblios since our "titles" are often collections. The items are all different from one another, much as serials/journals would be. This would be of great benefit to us. It used to be based on items in very old versions iirc. We switched to biblio for a very good reason I can't remember now...
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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