Display of Damage Status (952 ‡4)
Hi, all! My library has a fairly significant number of books with yellowing paper. The books are still usable -- we would withdraw it otherwise -- and we plan to keep them in circulation until the paper turns brown or brittle. We have marked such books with the appropriate damage value in 952 ‡4. Unfortunately, this has led to confusion among some staff and almost all the patrons because Koha reports the books "Availability: No items available: Damaged (1)." We would like to show a different statement, something akin to: "Availability: every item available but 1 damaged." The latter would mean that all items are available for circulation but one is damage. Of course, if all items are available but none is damaged, the notice would read "Availability: every item available." Is this possible? Might the OPACHiddenItems list be a solution to this? Many thanks, everyone! -- 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.
Hi Charles, I think what you describe, has been reported as *Bug 18062* <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18062> - Damaged Status shows unavailable in results I am not aware of a way to change this at the moment. OpacHiddenItems would hide the damaged items from view and if there are only damaged items, the record would be hidden as well. Hope this helps, Katrin On 24.09.21 06:56, Charles Kelley wrote:
Hi, all!
My library has a fairly significant number of books with yellowing paper. The books are still usable -- we would withdraw it otherwise -- and we plan to keep them in circulation until the paper turns brown or brittle. We have marked such books with the appropriate damage value in 952 ‡4.
Unfortunately, this has led to confusion among some staff and almost all the patrons because Koha reports the books
"Availability: No items available: Damaged (1)."
We would like to show a different statement, something akin to:
"Availability: every item available but 1 damaged."
The latter would mean that all items are available for circulation but one is damage. Of course, if all items are available but none is damaged, the notice would read "Availability: every item available."
Is this possible? Might the OPACHiddenItems list be a solution to this?
Many thanks, everyone!
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Charles Kelley -
Katrin Fischer