[Koha] Available items limiter: No Result found ! - Common Problem

[Ian Walls]

I have the same results as Owen.  I don't think items.onloan is being
consulted anymore to determine an item's availability.  There is a section
of code in the buildQuery() function that's been commented out, and it seems
to be what dealt with availability limiting.  See commit 3daa3143.

Also, the definition of 'available' seems a bit vague.  Until the previous
mentioned commit, it seems to be defined as "not checked out and not lost".
 But now that that section is commented out, I'm not sure how availability
is being determined.

Also also, perhaps it would be good to distinguish between available for
checkout vs. available for use.  For libraries with large non-circulating
collections, this distinction becomes increasingly important.  Looking
forward, perhaps some way to indicate whether something is online, and if it
accessible remotely or only on-site.


-Ian

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> > * Ian Walls (ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com) wrote:
> >>    after performing a search that returns many,
> >>    many results, limiting to available will reduce the results to less
> than a
> >>    page's worth (far fewer than are actually available)
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
> wrote:
> > If you get a chance could you try running the
> > misc/migration/fix_onloan.pl script. And also
> > update items set onloan = NULL  WHERE onloan = '0000-00-00'
>
> I see this problem in my test system running HEAD.
>
> I followed both these suggestions and there was no effect. The script
> produced a few lines of output (like "Onloan : 2010-03-04 for 768 /
> 1432"). The sql statement affected 0 rows.
>
>  -- Owen
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