Monthly Archives: January 2009

Walkin and Local holds

With permission, I am reprinting an explanation the Mickey wrote for one of our libraries about the differences and uses of the new Walkin and Local Holds item types:
WALKIN item types only restrict holdability. WALKIN items check out according to circulation rules assigned by the owning library, but they cannot be placed ON HOLD by [...]

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January 14 Updates – Updated

LibLime and Koha went on a bug-squashing rampage!  The January 14 updates to Koha included patches to fix over 20 known bugs, as well as our new Holdability Enhancement.  The updates were applied to our TEST server January 15 and the NExpress team has spent today reviewing, testing, and trying to understand all the changes.
UPDATE: [...]

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Holds and Holds Priority

Test Hold Bug Scenario (PDF)
As many of you have noticed, the Holds functionality of Koha is a bit off, as we can see by looking at any Stephanie Meyer title.
In trying to diagnose this problem, we discovered that there is a Known Bug (2830 ‘Hold not removed when ‘trapped’ item on hold shelf is checked [...]

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