[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function?

[Walz, Jennifer]

All -

  We are experiencing what we think is a bug, but maybe we are just mis-understanding something.

  When we edit an item with the "edit items / Volumes per bib" function, it ADDS a second, empty call number record.  (We can see it via the Holdings Maintenance screen).      All we want to do is to CHANGE a call number on a record.  We DON'T want to create a second call number record with no items attached.   It would be nice to also change the copy location at the same time (what is this combo function for, if not that??).    But all we get is a second empty record.  Not an actual update of the current items / volumes.

  What is going on here?   Is this a bug or something?   Why is this occurring?   Is something wrong with this combo edit function?

  However, when we edit the item with the "Edit Volume" option only, it does just what we expect - it changes only the call number and updates it.  It does not create a second record.    Then we have to go into the "Edit Item Attributes" option to fix the copy location.   Now all is good.

  On top of that, since we have discovered this problem, we have been DELETING volumes and REPLACING them with the same barcode from the original, in "holdings maintenance."    So, now the system thinks we have deleted that volume / copy.   When I run a report, it has marked those as "deleted" with the indicator, but they are ACUTALLY STILL THERE!   Oh now what?  How do I remove the deleted indicator from those records?    They are not actually deleted!!

Please tell me how to fix all of this!   It is a nightmare.   All we are trying to do is to move our Juvenile items from one copy location to another and change all the call numbers.  What gives!?

  Thanks!

Jennifer
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Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS Crazy
Kinlaw Library -  Asbury University
One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390
859-858-3511 ext. 2269
jlwalz at asbury.edu

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