[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions: dealing with cancelled/backordered line items

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:

>  Hi Jane,
>
> My recollection is that in 2.4.4, you can't change the status of a line
> item in the staff client once it is cancelled. In 2.4.7, you will be able
> to change it to received (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1115599), but you still can't
> cancel it a second time. I believe our acq people handle this by changing
> the cancel reason directly in the database.
>

Just to be clear, for items that are already canceled, changing the cancel
reason will not remove the encumbrances.


>
> It won't help you now, but Equinox is doing some development for us that
> will allow you to change the cancel reason. We hope the development will
> make it into 2.7. You can read the specs at
> http://yeti.esilibrary.com/dev/pub/techspecs/acq-cancel-reason-display.html
> .
>

And now we have some code:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1270289

-b

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