[Koha] How to use Item Type ?

[Owen Leonard]

> What is the necessity of  calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level
> instead of calling it as "record type".
> Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a RECORD.

ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short
answer is that without a biblio-level item type (942c), any limit you
configure on the number of holds per item type will not work
correctly.

http://bywatersolutions.com/2016/03/22/biblio-level-item-types-koha/

"Holds are not so simple — in particular, with biblio level holds,
items aren’t associated with the hold record until the hold is filled.
This means, for the purposes of determining how many of a given item
type that a patron can check out, Koha must check the biblio level
item type… and if those are not set, or aren’t set consistently across
the collection, you may see errors in the number of items that a
patron can put on hold."

  -- Owen

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