[Koha] Status "in transit" after checking in

[Caroline Cyr La Rose]

Hi Michael,  
Why do some items belong to branch B if they’re never going there?
I’m asking because there is an option in the circulation rules to « float » your collection, meaning that wherever the item is returned, it will stay at whichever branch it was checked in at.  

https://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/administration.html#default-checkout-hold-and-return-policy  

I *think* this doesn’t affect the homebranch (your item would have homebranch B, holdingbranch A), but I’m not 100% sure. Thats why I was asking why some items belong to branch B.  

Hope this helps!
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Caroline Cyr La Rose, M.L.I.S.  
Librarian, Product Manager
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Le 29 janvier 2020 à 05:58:05, Michael Kuhn (mik at adminkuhn.ch(mailto:mik at adminkuhn.ch)) a écrit:

> Hi
>  
> Our library is financed by two organisations. Thus we have one Koha
> 18.11 instance with two separate branches, but only one circulation
> counter where we are checking in the items.
>  
> Say we are logged in at the counter with branch A and checking in an
> item belonging to branch B - this will result in the following status
> message for the item: "In transit from branch A to branch B since
> 26/01/2020". To set this status to "Available" we need to log in as
> branch B and to check in the item once more.
>  
> We would better like if the status could just go to "Available" since in
> fact there is no transport necessary.
>  
> After some fruitless reading of the manual I came up with the idea to
> just delete the content of table "branchtransfers" every minute via cronjob:
>  
> DELETE FROM branchtransfers;
>  
> The status is then "Available", as desired.
>  
> Is this possible/advisable, or do you know a better way?
>  
> Best wishes: Michael
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