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

[Elaine Bradtke]

We had a similar problem with collection codes.
In the end I exported the records, ran a batch edit in MarcEdit (or a text
editor) and then imported the records to overwrite the old ones.  It is
always safer to do this in a test instance of the catalogue first, if you
have one. Though as edits go, changing the case of one word *should *be
simple.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >
> >
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