The downside of allowing staff to place holds in such situations is that they 
may place holds on things you would never consider replacing.  For example, we 
would look for the most up-to-date exam prep books when one our SAT, GRE, etc., 
books go missing.  We may or may not get one from the same publisher so we 
cannot count on a serial record saving the day.

What would be helpful would be for the ability for staff in certain permission 
groups to be able to place holds on lost items.

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Killeen Public Library
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Evergreen-general] HIGH_LEVEL_HOLD_HAS_NO_COPIES issues

I think it is useful for staff to be able to place holds on records where no 
copy is available. An additional circulating copy might be added at a later 
date, or a lost copy might be returned, and staff should have the ability to 
place holds with these eventualities in mind. I do agree that being able to 
suppress the place holds button from patrons is useful in these cases, but if 
staff wants to knowingly place holds in these situations they should be allowed 
to do so.

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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:43 PM Elaine Hardy 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was thinking of the public OPAC when I said we didn't have any reports of the 
place hold button being available and not the staff client. I realized that 
when I tried to place a hold and got the   HIGH_LEVEL_HOLD_HAS_NO_COPIES error. 
This time it was for a bib record where all items are in a non holdable 
shelving location.

So revising  my previous comment -- it would be good if the place hold button 
was not live in the staff client if no copies on the record were available for 
holds.

I will check for a bug report.


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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:24 PM Elaine Hardy 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
To build on what Erica has said, when I have seen this in PINES, it has been 
when the copies attached to a title record are in holdable status but the 
library is set in the org unit settings to be skipped in hold targeting.

I have not seen any reports since we have been on 3.6.1 of place holds being 
available when no items are attached to a bib record or if all items are in a 
nonholdable status/state.


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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 1:23 PM Erica Rohlfs 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don't know if what I have to add will be helpful. I encountered this issue 
several years ago and tested on both the Web Client and XUL. The message is 
more specifically stating that "a hold request at a higher level than copy has 
been attempted, but there are no copies that belong to the higher-level unit." 
Generically, Evergreen isn't letting you place a title hold if the only copies 
are effectively non-holdable.

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 1:05 PM Terran McCanna 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I suspect that HIGH_LEVEL_HOLD_HAS_NO_COPIES is a generic error message that 
just means there aren't any copies that can fill the hold - either because 
there aren't any copies, or there aren't any copies that are in an available 
status, or because the copies are age protected at other locations, or some 
other reason.

I would recommend creating a new Launchpad bug report that 1) Requests that the 
Place Hold button is greyed out if a record has no holdings, and 2) Requests 
that a more human-readable error message is presented in place of that error 
message.



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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:54 PM Lindsay Stratton 
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I raised this at the conference Holds pre-session, and there were a variety of 
interesting responses, so I'll also raise it here.

We recently upgraded to 3.6., and are noticing that when placing holds in the 
staff catalog, the Place Hold button is available for titles with no copies.The 
hold fails with the HIGH_LEVEL_HOLD_HAS_NO_COPIES error, with no override, etc.

My issues:

1) The place hold button had previously been "greyed out"/unavailable, which 
may have been a local template customization? but, it's misleading and 
frustrating

2) What is actually happening here?

3) Are there settings for this?

4) There are no permissions for the high level hold 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1761241)

5) the silent failure (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1761238)

FWIW, in my consortia, the holds are plain title holds, no OUs are set for hold 
skipping, we don't use parts.

Lindsay Stratton
Systems Librarian
Westchester Library System
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Elmsford, NY 10523
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