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

[Jason Stephenson]

On 02/04/2014 10:13 PM, Holly Brennan 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**)
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> 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?

We (the tech. staff at a our consortium's central site) usually get
asked to do these for the members. We keep track of the previous
location for the copies in a custom table that we added to a custom
schema: mvlc.temp_copy_changes.

Very often, we do this in large batches too large for the staff client
to handle. We recently moved over 28,000 copies for one of our members
who was having some work done on their main branch building. We moved
them all to Storage while the work was done, and then put them all back
just yesterday.

Another way to get the old copy location for a copy would be to use that
auditor.asset_copy_history table. We clear ours out every 6 months, so
it is less useful for us.

I know you are specifically asking about solutions in the staff client,
but there are some non-staff client solutions. If you'd like to see
real, first class support for temporary copy locations, I'd suggest
making a wishlist bug on Launchpad.

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Has anyone else dreamed of this? Any developers want to chime in whether
> it’s possible?
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> Thanks!
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> -Holly
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> Holly Brennan
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> Library Technology Specialist
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> Homer Public Library
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> 907-235-3180 (main)
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> 907-435-3154 (direct)
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> hbrennan at cityofhomer-ak.gov
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-- 
Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium