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

[Linda Culberson]

Everyone,
I'd like to second Ian's idea about basing the cart off of items instead 
of biblios since our "titles" are often collections. The items are all 
different from one another, much as serials/journals would be.  This 
would be of great benefit to us.
Thanks.

> Subject:
> [Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios
> From:
> Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:32:36 -0500
> To:
> koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>
> 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:
>
>    1. Batch Item mod
>    2. Move items from multiple biblios to a single new biblio, in one step
>    3. Print label batches
>    4. 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



On 3/8/2011 5:00 PM, koha-request at lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
> Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios

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Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives & History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
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