[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question concerning the booking module

[Hardy, Elaine]

Hi Lebbeous,

I've checked resources I don't know how many times and nothing displayed.
I made one of STATELIB's items bookable and now I get  a list under
resources. The ghosts in the machine are finally cooperating today. I knew
there had to be something that we were missing.

We are considering  removing the module, either the permission route or
the config setting you mention. Most of our libraries were more interested
in using it for the nonbib item booking but the lack of a calendar feature
and a few other issues make it problematic for them.

Thanks,

Elaine
 

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax

ehardy at georgialibraries.org
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question concerning the booking module

On 06/21/2011 01:26 PM, Hardy, Elaine wrote:
> We've had some libraries accidentally make bibliographic items
> bookable (well, I'm calling it accidental. I suspect it was an attempt
> to see what would happen). We would like to remove them from being a
> bookable resource, since they are visible with any library's login,
> but have not been able to do so at any permission level. While we can
> delete a non-bib item from the bookable resource type in the server
> administration interface, the bib records don't delete. We thought
> perhaps they were booked and this was preventing their deletion; but,
that is not the case.
> So, our questions are  -- can we remove a bib item from resource types
> and, if so, how? Basically, what are we missing?
>

Hello Elaine,

I think you'll be able to delete the "resource type" entries if you first
delete all the related "resource" entries in the interface which you find
by following these staff client menus: Admin -> Server Administration ->
Booking -> Resources.

Also, if I recall correctly, it is possible not to run the Evergreen
booking service (a server-side configuration change).  Not running the
booking service won't gracefully hide all the buttons and links in the
staff client that lead to booking features, but it will prevent those
features from working.

Another, less dramatic option to prevent items from being made bookable
again would be to make sure that nobody has either the
"ADMIN_BOOKING_RESOURCE_TYPE" or the "ADMIN_BOOKING_RESOURCE" permission.

Hope this helps,

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