[Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios

[Koustubha Kale]

2011/3/9 Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>:
> 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:
>
> Batch Item mod
> Move items from multiple biblios to a single new biblio, in one step
> Print label batches
> 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
>
> --
> Ian Walls
> Lead Development Specialist
> ByWater Solutions
> Phone # (888) 900-8944
> http://bywatersolutions.com
> ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
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>

Hi Ian,
I think its a great idea. Particularly  if we had this:
>
> Batch Item mod
> Move items from multiple biblios to a single new biblio, in one step
> Print label batches

Regards
KK