[Koha] How to use Item Type ?

[Joy Nelson]

Additionally, if you have bibliographic records without any items
(electronic resources) you will need an itemtype at the bib level (942c) to
allow for patrons to search for that type of resource.

-joy

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> > What is the necessity of  calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level
> > instead of calling it as "record type".
> > Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a
> RECORD.
>
> ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short
> answer is that without a biblio-level item type (942c), any limit you
> configure on the number of holds per item type will not work
> correctly.
>
> http://bywatersolutions.com/2016/03/22/biblio-level-item-types-koha/
>
> "Holds are not so simple — in particular, with biblio level holds,
> items aren’t associated with the hold record until the hold is filled.
> This means, for the purposes of determining how many of a given item
> type that a patron can check out, Koha must check the biblio level
> item type… and if those are not set, or aren’t set consistently across
> the collection, you may see errors in the number of items that a
> patron can put on hold."
>
>   -- Owen
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