[Koha] Missing lost status in Default framework item record

[Hernandez, Heather]

Hi, Elaine (& all)--

Well, *all* our records are in the default framework!:)  It's just simpler
to manage, since I import all new records from OCLC via the gateway export
into that one framework, and when I need to make fields visible it's just
easier to edit the default framework and have it work on all the records.
(A few times a year I have to make fields visible to edit since Koha seems
to come with a lot of commonly used fields hidden, I guess to make it
simpler for folks who are not so familiar with MARC.)

I'm *so* eager to try to the new cataloging interface, though, for record
editing (I hope it does editing!) but I would still use one framework for
all records--managing all those different frameworks doesn't really make
sense to me.  But, of course, I'm coming from an OCLC workflow perspective
(i.e., one MARC21 record--picking different flavors of it in Connexion just
causes different default fields to display, not to store a record in a
whole different framework.)

We'll manage, though, with the new "lost" workflow, I'm sure--we always do!

Excelsior!
h2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heather Hernandez
Technical Services Librarian
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center
2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA  94123
415-561-7032, heather_hernandez at nps.gov
http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm

"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> ​We're in the same boat as Heather.  I can sort of see why large public
> and university libraries may want to do things differently, but if you're a
> small research collection like ours, this is awkward.
>
> Heather, at least in our catalogue, the Lost status being hidden in the
> editor  only occurs in the default framework.​
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Hernandez, Heather <
> heather_hernandez at nps.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all--
>>
>> Bob wrote:
>> > For the benefit of others, the better way to set lost status is from the
>> record Details page by
>> > selecting the Items tab from those at left.
>>
>> I tried reading through the bugzilla on this to understand why it was
>> changed, but I'm afraid not enough of it was in "librarian" for me to
>> understand!:)  This is going to cause us more work, since I'd have to
>> click
>> "Items" in the tab on the left to set the status to missing, then go to
>> another place (click the "Edit" button, then select "Edit items," then
>> click in the item to edit) to enter a non-public note about such things as
>> when the item was searched.  It's been faster to click "edit" on the
>> correct item to set its lost status & enter the non-public note
>> information
>> in one "edit" step.
>>
>> But we're still on 3.18, and I haven't any experience yet with 3.20+, so I
>> might be misunderstanding!  Also, we don't charge fines--did I read the
>> bugzilla correctly enough to understand that the interaction to the patron
>> record wasn't happening correctly on lost items, and it was decided not to
>> correct the problem if one set the item to lost via clicking "Edit" next
>> to
>> the correct item record in the staff "Normal" display?
>>
>> Cheerio!
>> --h2
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Heather Hernandez
>> Technical Services Librarian
>> San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center
>> 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA  94123
>> 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez at nps.gov
>> http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm
>>
>> "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
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