[Koha-devel] [IMPORTANT] transfer & reserve problem/question (bug ?)

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello world,


The status of a book, in the result list of a query is given by the 
items.onloan (952$q in marc21 if I don't mind).
This field let Koha know wether the book is available or issued. If 
952$7 -notforloan-, $1 -itemlost-, $0 -wthdrawn is set, the status will 
be correctly displayed.

but what if a book is being transfered and/or reserved. Actually, the 
book is displayed as "available", which is wrong (unless i've missed 
some parameter someone will point ;-) )

imo, a book being transfered should display "1 item being transfered 
from X to Y" (in staff interface) and "Not available" (in opac)
a book reserved should be displayed likely.

The SAN-OP has this feature in it's specific 3.0 version, running live 
since 1 year now, and it display those information.

How could we reintroduce this behaviour ?
the easiest solution would be, in to introduce a test for that in 
C4/Search.pm/sub searchResults.
what do you think of this solution ? Another one would be to have new 
fields in items table, to store a transfer or a reserve, but I think 
it's too complex.
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Paul POULAIN
BibLibre SARL
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