[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] "undo-ing" copy location edits

[Jim Taylor]

Entirely possible…I believe Symphony can do that so already have an example.   One thing they didn’t account for, at the time anyway, was what happens if you change an item after that.   Say you decide to pull it from Fossils and put it in “Really Old Guys” instead.  What happens?  Surprisingly, everybody in the group discussion at a conference seemed to think I was silly for even being concerned even though they admitted it might be  a problem.   Just something, seemingly obvious, but , apparently not,  to take into account if you pursue development of such a feature.

 

 

Jim

 

From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] "undo-ing" copy location edits

 

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Holly Brennan <haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us> wrote:

We just started using a shelving location of ‘Display’ for items that have been pulled from their normal locations in order to be… you guessed it… on display. (Currently it’s *Fossils*)

 

Using a copy bucket to change the locations is SO much easier than it was with our former ILS. We love that. So, of course, it made me greedy. What if it was just as easy to return items to their former locations?

 

I thought, what if, when we’re done with the display, we could click a button to change the location of the items from ‘Display’ back to the 7 or so locations where the individual items regularly live. That would be cool. No, MAGIC.

 

If we held onto the copy bucket with all these items, it seems possible (to me). The change could be a temporary location change. Something like, Please change to this new location, but remember your old one, because you’re going back there someday. 

 

Has anyone else dreamed of this? Any developers want to chime in whether it’s possible?

 

Yep, dreamed of it long ago for a slightly different context: putting items on reserve (which could change their location and call number, too).

One possibility that now leaps to mind is to make use of the auditor tables that track every change to a given copy and call number (and many other entities in the database... at least until those auditor tables are purged). We could whip up a batch action along the lines of "Reset copy location to previous location" pretty easily, I think.

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