[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine)

[Michele Morgan]

Hi Deanna,

These checkin modifiers were added in Release 2.2 (I believe).

From the Launchpad bug:

2 - Retarget Local Holds / Retarget All Statuses

When checking in items that are owned by the library and are In process (or, with the second option selected, in general) attempt to find a local hold to retarget. This is intended to help with "added an item to a popular bib, and it didn't target anything" and/or "added an item to a popular bib and it targeted a hold somewhere else before a local hold".

Essentially, it works on your items, and runs the hold targeter at each checkin, looking for the holds for pickup at your library. You should be aware that it can slow down checkins due to the hold targeter running.

Retarget local holds works for In Process items
Add Retarget all statuses (have both checked) to work on other statuses.

In all cases it works on your items and your holds.

Here’s a link to the full bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/810748 

Hope this is helpful,
Michele

-- 
Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
mmorgan at noblenet.org

On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Deana Cunningham <deana.cunningham at granvillecounty.org> wrote:

> Elaine,
> 
> I see what you are saying, but I can minimize the possibility of an unsuspecting patron placing a hold by making missing items "holdable" but not "OPAC visible". If a staff person should place a hold for the patron without noticing there are no items listed beneath the record in the staff client view of the OPAC, the hold will show up on the pull list and we will go look for it again. Sometimes books mysteriously reappear after traveling through space and time, so looking again is a good thing. If we still can't find it we will notify the patron that the item is missing and see if they want us to try ILL.
> 
> Michele 
> 
> Can you give me a description of what the checkin modifier "retarget local holds" does? Does it mean whenever you check in an item it checks to see if there are any local holds that item can fill? What if the item belongs to another branch, and their patrons have holds on it as well? I am not referring to "new" items here, as we are not the branch that catalogs or enters new items in the system, and we don't have any age limitations on holds.
> 
> And yes - when I went to admin - server administration - copy statuses and checked in the box for "holdable" under the statuses "missing" and "trace" old holds placed prior to the status change were triggered on check in. 
> 
> Thanks again Evergreen Community! It is grand to learn something new!
> 
> Deana Cunningham
> Branch Manager, South Branch Library
> 1550 S. Campus Dr.
> Creedmoor, NC 27522
> Phone: (919) 528-1752
> Fax: (919) 528-1376
> deana.cunningham at granvillecounty.org

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