[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: View Holds Screen

[Anne Murray]

We would also like to see this functionality - is there any chance of
it being developed?

Anne Murray
EDLC Libraries


On 22/08/2012, Fiona Borthwick <fiona.borthwick at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
> Hi Tina,
>
> It is good to know that you would like to achieve the same as us!  It
> seems like Evergreen should offer this as a default as surely all
> consortiums would want to be able to see their own system's holds list.
> Your description of the problem sums the issue up nicely!
>
> Thanks,
> Fiona
>
> On 21/08/2012 20:20, Tina Ji (Project Sitka) wrote:
>> We are facing the same issue.
>>
>> On View Holds screen from a title record, holds can be filtered by
>> Pickup (Requesting) Library. If the Filter checkbox is selected, on
>> the OU tree you can only select a branch. Our multi-branch libraries
>> want to view a list of all holds to be picked up at any branch of
>> their library. It would be great if libraries can scale up and down
>> the OU tree to view the holds within the selected scope.
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Fiona Borthwick
>>> <fiona.borthwick at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am hoping someone can help me with this query please.  I may be
>>>> missing a
>>>> setting somewhere but have spent a considerable amount of time
>>>> looking for
>>>> the answer.
>>>>
>>>> Our customer would like to be able to see their own 'system' holds when
>>>> using the 'View Holds' option under the 'Actions for this Record'
>>>> menu.  The
>>>> filter option is not really suitable  here as it will only allow
>>>> them to
>>>> filter to one branch.  Ideally they would like to be presented with
>>>> a full
>>>> list of holds for their own system.  We are finding that we can only
>>>> filter
>>>> to the branch or see the entire consortium holds list.
>>>
>>> Do you mean "holds that are currently targeting items in my system" or
>>> "holds placed by users who's home library is in my system" or
>>> something else?  OTTOMH, I don't recall if the UI presents a way to do
>>> either of those, but the data is there for both ... but, first we need
>>> to understand the desired outcome.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Rylander
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>>>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
>>>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Tina Ji
>> 1-888-848-9250
>> Trainer/Help Desk Specialist
>> BC Libraries Cooperative/Sitka
>>
>>
>>
>
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