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

[Sarah Childs]

On a related note, in Indiana we recently added "Display" as a status.  
This works great for displays that you just fill up with new things as 
the previous ones get checked out. Instead of changing the shelving 
location you set the status of the materials as display, and then when 
they get checked out and checked back in they just go back through the 
regular reshelving to available status cycle and get reshelved at their 
usual shelving locations. Obviously, this isn't so useful for long term 
displays where you want the items on display to return to the display 
after being checked out.

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Sarah Childs
Technical Services Department Head
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
250 North Fifth Street
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-873-3149 x13330
sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us

On 2014-02-05 01:07, Jim Taylor wrote:
> 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.
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> Jim
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> 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
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] "undo-ing" copy location edits
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> 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*)
> 
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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?
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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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> 
> 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.