All good thoughts, in particular the design approach in #3 to maintain freshness is a great new idea.
--joe On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Owen Leonard <oleon...@myacpl.org> wrote: > Now that we're up and running on 3.0, we're discovering some aspects > of the Holds Queue report that are not working for us: > > 1. Title. The list displays the title (245a) and only the title. No > subtitle, no name of part/section of a work (245p), no number of > part/section of a work (245n). This makes it impossible to pull some > items based only on what's in the report (picture being in the stacks > with a printed copy, wishing you could click through for more info). > In our [custom-built] 2.x report we had barcodes, at least. > > 2. Damaged items. The holds queue report includes items which have > been marked as damaged. I would think that if the holds queue process > found a bib record with more than one available item that it should > only list available items which are not marked as damaged--perhaps > based on the "AllowHoldsOnDamagedItems" preference? > > 3. Freshness. I realize the process for building the Holds Queue > report must be intensive or it wouldn't rely on a cron job. But what > about a process for taking the processed and stored Holds Queue report > and filtering it based on more current availability information? The > display of the report could include a pass to check for current status > so that even if the Holds Queue report hadn't regenerated for an hour, > it would still hide items on the list which had been made waiting or > lost. > > I welcome any opinions or ideas anyone might have, > > Owen > -- > Web Developer > Athens County Public Libraries > http://www.myacpl.org <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> >
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