[Koha] [EXTERNAL] Circulating non-specific items

[Andrew Fuerste-Henry]

I really want itemBarcodeFallbackSearch <https://koha-community.org/manual//22.11/en/html/circulationpreferences.html#itembarcodefallbacksearch> to work for this: You make just one bib and add an item per dino, giving each item a barcode "dino 1," "dino 2," and so on. At checkout, the staff member enters "dino" for the barcode,  gets presented with a list of dino items, and selects the first available one. Ideally, you'd replace "dino" with a word that's easily memorable for staff but doesn't appear in any other records. Maybe just "dinotoy"?

But this scheme runs into two issues that might really need to be addressed as bugs. First, the search results for the fallback search don't filter out items that are currently checked out. Second, it doesn't even show you which are checked out and which are available. So really staff get an unusable list of all the dino toys.

But either of those things might be correctable via jQuery?

Andrew Fuerste-Henry
Assistant Library Director
Dubuque County Library District
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