Change the “No requesting from available holding” functionality (check item availability)
Circulation desk librarians want to make a distinction between items and holdings that are (not) available for requesting purposes.
Patrons shouldn't be able to request items that are available, but they should be able to request items that are NOT available. In our case our items are created under the same holding, and Alma checks the holding for availability, not the item.
Use case: 1 holding with 3 items (with the same item description): 2 items are loanable, 1 item should stay in the shelves for consulting.
When the 2 loanable items are on loan and the 3rd one being a non-loanable copy, the first 2 items cannot be requested, there’s no request button.
We want to be able to show a request button when an item is on loan, even though there is still a no loan item available under the same holding.
Hi,
In the July 2017 release the following was done:
The calculation of the fulfillment unit On Shelf Request Policy was changed for serial titles. For each item, if there are available items that have the same description and are requestable, then the request link will be suppressed. If the available items are not requestable then the request link will not be suppressed.
Thank you for this very helpful suggestion !
Moshe
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In the July 2017 release the following was done: The calculation of the fulfillment unit, On shelf policy, was changed for serial titles. For each item, if there are available items that have the same description and are requestable, then the request link should be suppressed.