[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating Collections

[Ben Shum]

How timely Tim, we just had a case where we found an item with floating 
set to yes, misbehaving when it was returned to another library and not 
transiting back to its home system.

I think you're right that this is not possible to work within system 
only at this time.  But I know folks have talked about that in the 
past... just not sure if anybody is actually working to develop this 
capability.

Good idea though.

-- Ben


On 08/08/2012 09:00 AM, Tim Spindler wrote:
> We are a multisystem consortium and we have one system that is looking 
> at using floating collections.  They were doing a little testing and 
> found.
>
>  1. Toggled a copy to floating collection
>  2. Checked the item out at branch 1 and the copy had circ library as
>     branch 1
>  3. Returned the item to branch 2 and it set the item to a circ
>     library as branch 2  (which is what they wanted)
>
> However, they also found that when the item was returned to a library 
> outside of their system, the circ library was changed to that library 
> outside of their system.
>
> Is there a way to prevent this from happening and only allow it to 
> change within the system?  I didn't think this was possible but I want 
> to make sure before I answer the question.
>
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Benjamin Shum
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