[Koha] Report help needed - lost items

Cab Vinton bibliwho at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 07:47:56 NZDT 2019


Very late to the party, but maybe this could provide a clue.

The following throws an error, but I believe the basic idea of finding
records where the lowest itemlost value isn't zero is on the right
track:

WHERE itype = <<Item type|itemtypes>>
GROUP BY biblionumber
HAVING MIN(itemlost) > 0

I suspect SQL is sensitive to the order of these statements, but there
are probably other issues as well.

Hopefully someone else w/ better report-writing chops than me can take
it from there. Or if you found something that works, Elaine, please
share w/ the list :-)

All best,

Cab Vinton, Director
Plaistow Public Library
Plaistow, NH


On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 8:30 PM Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
> Mark, that still didn't do the trick, but thanks!
> Caroline, this is much closer to what I need. But still not quite right.
> It's messy because I've altered a report that I found in the report library
> rather inelegantly.
>
> What I really need is a list of titles and biblio numbers of biblios where
> the last item is lost, or missing, or withdrawn (I can change that part of
> the query myself).  I have to limit it by format because we have articles
> and components in the catalogue that don't have item records attached.
> What I'm getting now lis a list of biblios with items that are missing but
> it includes biblios that still have one or more items that are on the shelf
> (but at least one item that is missing). Or in other words, I'm looking for
> biblios where the all the items are missing/lost/withdrawn.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> Elaine Bradtke
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> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:30 PM Caroline Cyr-La-Rose <
> caroline.cyr-la-rose at inlibro.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Elaine,
> >
> > from what I understand, you want bibliographic information on lost items?
> >
> > I'd need to know exactly the purpose of the report to help you more as
> > there are things in there I don't understand (like why select barcode,
> > when afterwards you group by biblionumber, or why the title is there
> > twice).
> >
> > First, instead of selecting from the biblio table, I would go the other
> > way and select from the items table. That way, you are sure of getting
> > only things that have an item.
> >
> > If you want to limit by itemtype, you can add WHERE itype = <<Item
> > type|itemtypes>> in your query to have the ability to choose your
> > itemtype upon executing your report.
> >
> > I cleaned your query up a little bit, but like I mentioned before, as I
> > don't know the purpose, it might not be what you need.
> >
> > SELECT
> >          CONCAT(
> >              '<a href=\"/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=',
> >              biblionumber,
> >              '\">',
> >              title,
> >              '</a>'
> >          ) AS Title,
> >          biblionumber,
> >          barcode,
> >          ccode,
> >          onloan AS 'Checkout date'
> > FROM
> >          items
> >          JOIN biblio USING (biblionumber)
> > WHERE itemlost != 0
> >        AND itype = <<Item type|itemtypes>>
> >
> > Let us know if this works.
> > Caroline
> >
> >
> > On 19-08-23 15 h 00, Mark Alexander wrote:
> > > Excerpts from Elaine Bradtke's message of 2019-08-23 11:32:44 -0700:
> > >> I've got the following adapted from one in the reports library.  But I
> > need
> > >> to limit it by item type, or not return everything that doesn't have an
> > >> item record attached. We've got lots of components in our catalogue that
> > >> don't have items and it's returning all of them:
> > >>
> > >> SELECT
> > >>          CONCAT(
> > >>              '<a href=\"/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=
> > ',
> > >>              bib.biblionumber,
> > >>              '\">',
> > >>              bib.title,
> > >>              '</a>'
> > >>          ) AS Title,
> > >>          bib.title,
> > >>          bib.biblionumber,
> > >>          lostitems.barcode,
> > >>          lostitems.ccode,
> > >>          lostitems.onloan AS 'Checkout date'
> > >> FROM
> > >>          biblio bib
> > >>          LEFT JOIN items ON (bib.biblionumber = items.biblionumber AND
> > >> items.itemlost = 0)
> > >>          LEFT JOIN items AS lostitems ON (bib.biblionumber =
> > >> lostitems.biblionumber AND lostitems.itemlost != 0)
> > >> GROUP BY bib.biblionumber
> > >> HAVING count(items.itemnumber) = 0
> > > While I'm not an SQL expert by any means, I think I was able to get
> > > this to work on my catalog by removing the HAVING clause and
> > > putting "WHERE items.itemnumber IS NULL" before the GROUP clause:
> > >
> > > SELECT
> > >          CONCAT(
> > >              '<a href=\"/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=
> > ',
> > >              bib.biblionumber,
> > >              '\">',
> > >              bib.title,
> > >              '</a>'
> > >          ) AS Title,
> > >          bib.title,
> > >          bib.biblionumber,
> > >          lostitems.barcode,
> > >          lostitems.ccode,
> > >          lostitems.onloan AS 'Checkout date'
> > > FROM
> > >          biblio bib
> > >          LEFT JOIN items ON (bib.biblionumber = items.biblionumber AND
> > > items.itemlost = 0)
> > >          LEFT JOIN items AS lostitems ON (bib.biblionumber =
> > > lostitems.biblionumber AND lostitems.itemlost != 0)
> > > WHERE items.itemnumber IS NULL
> > > GROUP BY bib.biblionumber
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