[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Meaning of a couple of fields in action.hold_request

[Jason Etheridge]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:45 PM, John Craig
>> <jc-mailinglist at alphagconsulting.com> wrote:
>>> selection_ou
>>
>> In practice, this is the same as the pickup library, but can be
>> different if you set it to be different in the staff client.  It is
>> the library at which the hold targeter starts to look for eligible
>> copies for the hold.  So all else being equal, an item at the pickup
>> library will be grabbed for a hold before an item elsewhere.
>
> Scratch that last sentence.  Capture (what "grabbed" sounds like to
> me) is completely orthogonal to the process of finding potential
> copies, and even orthogonal to targetting.

Thanks Mike.  To restate it: So all else being equal, an item at the
pickup library
will show up on a pull list for the hold before another item elsewhere would.

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