[Koha] follow up on: transfers to receive- home/holding branch issues

[Amy Schuler]

Hello again,
thanks to Michael, Katrin and Robin for helping out a few weeks ago with my
holding branch/home branch issues.

I went through the exercises you all recommended, and as you might have
guessed I found that for some (not all) items I have a bad homebranch and
holdingbranch:  Cary.  The "correct" location for both should be uppercase
CARY.

Example: When I check out an item that has homebr Cary and holdingbr Cary,
then check it in again, it ends up in the "transfers to receive" queue
because in the checkout process it had been switched from homebr Cary and
holdingbr CARY.  These are the only items that go to "transfers to
receive".  Items that always indicate homebr CARY and holdingbr CARY always
get checked in normally without going to that queue.

Is this something I can fix if I make a copy of my database and make global
changes in some test environment?

Thanks again for all of your advice.
Amy Schuler
CARY Institute ;)

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org>
wrote:

> Hello again, I have more info.
>
> Just now, when canceling transfers as described below, I saw that the
> fields for "home library" and "holding library" were slightly different.
> One says "Cary" and the other says "CARY".  I should mention that only the
> books that I checked in that have the lower case "Cary" as home library end
> up in the 'transfers to receive' queue.
>
> When I look at these records in the OPAC I don't see differences between
> them - they all have thefull name of our institution (Cary Institute
> Library) listed as home and current holding library.
>
> I just looked in global sys preferences > libraries and see that there is
> only one library, Cary Institute Library, code CARY indicated here.  So I
> am not sure where lower case 'Cary' is coming from, or how to merge or get
> rid of it without really messing things up.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.  Thanks again!
> a
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, if this message looks familiar it's because I posted it originally
>> back in 2013, but got no response.  I am still having the same problem.
>>
>> An annoying thing is occurring when I check in an item in the circulation
>> module.  After I check in as usual, the status becomes "In transit from
>> Cary Institute Library, to , since . " Then I have to go into Transfers to
>> Receive and cancel the transfer for that item before it will display as
>> available for loan in the OPAC record.
>>
>> Any tips or advice?  I searched bugs and didn't find anything about this.
>>
>> We use Koha 3.18.06.000 (Linux ubuntu).
>>
>> Hope you can help.
>> thanks!
>>
>> Amy Schuler
>> schulera at caryinstitute.org
>>
>
>