[Koha] "Place Hold" in OPAC

[Chris Cormack]

2009/12/21 Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu>:
> In the catalog viewed by patrons, some of our Koha records for
> electronic books display "Place Hold" in the Action category and some
> of them do not.
>
> See the following search results for an example:
> <http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=NETLIBRARY+digital+business>
>
> The MARC fields are different for these records as some were loaded
> recently and some were migrated from Voyager.
>
> The record for "Doing business in a digital world" is an example of a
> book that shows the "Place Hold" action, and for an example of a
> record that does not show the "Place Hold" as an available action,
> see: "Architectural issues of Web-enabled electronic business".
>
> Since we have no way for patrons to place holds on ebooks from Koha,
> it would be good if the records for ebooks didn't have this option
> displayed.
>
> What MARC field/subfield data is used to deterimine whether the "Place
> Hold" action is or is not available for a particular record?
>
Koha uses a matrix, itemtype - patrontype - library/branch to define
issuing and hold rules.
So in Koha you would go to Administration, then fines and circulation rules.
You would end up at a URL like
http://your.staff.site/cgi-bin/koha/admin/smart-rules.pl

And in the reserves allowed(count) column for the itemtype of your
ebooks you would put 0, that would mean no one could place a hold a
hold on it. You could allow only holds for certain patron types, or
certain branches/libraries or a combination.

Once again I'm afraid I have no idea how LEK does it. Liblime may or
may not have ported this feature from Koha over.

Chris