To clarify, when you say you check it in and it goes into transit, do you
mean it's going into transit to fill a hold or to return to its owning
library?

Is there a reason why you don't use the Mark Damaged option for this?


On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM Owen Hoke via Evergreen-general <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> My library is looking at streamlining our process for handling damaged
> items. Here's the issue we are running into:
>
> If an item is checked in, it automatically goes into "In Transit" status.
> If we cancel the transit, it goes into "Canceled Transit" status. If we
> want to send it to our bindery, we typically want to change it to a
> "Bindery" status so it can't be held, etc. However, the "Canceled Transit"
> status doesn't allow us to manually change the item status in either the
> item status menu nor the holdings editor. To clarify, if an item has the
> "Canceled Transit" status, the item status dropdown is greyed out.
>
> Our current workaround is to mark the item as discard/weed, which we can
> then go in and manually change to "bindery" however some of our newer staff
> may have issues with learning this workaround.
>
> My questions is this, is there a way in the settings to permit certain
> item statuses - in this case "Canceled Transit" - to become changeable. If
> I wanted to go from "Canceled Transit" to "Bindery" is there a way to make
> it happen?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Owen Hoke, Delivery Services Coordinator
> East Central Regional Library (ECRL)
> http://www.ecrlib.org/  [email protected]
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