Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating collections

[Chris Owens]

Title: Sincerely,

Josh: Looking over your documentation, I just had a couple of questions, if you have time. It looks like we are using what you call the "traditional" BHSSO, but if I understand you correctly, changing it to the FIFO method will not solve our problem because the new floating item we check in will still go first to the patron of that owning library even if that patron isn't first on the holds list? Does it seem to you that the only solution to this problem right now is to create another org unit for these items for the FIFO method (with Hold Priority at the top of the list) to truly work correctly? Thanks again for your help, Chris     On 3/4/2016 10:29 AM, Josh Stompro wrote: Hello Chris, I believe you will need to adjust your Best-Hold Selection Sort Order (BHSSO) so that owning location doesn’t get priority.   The official docs are at http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.8/_best_hold_selection_sort_order.html   I’ve been working on some updates to the docs that may help. https://gist.github.com/stompro/42eb6cbe2c1db5f12324   You may be currently using hprox as one of your first sorts, which always fills holds at the Owning locations first.  If you switch to pprox then you will fill holds at the checkin location first.   If you only want to change the BHSSO for the floating items, then you could create a new org unit just to own those items.  The BHSSO is applied based on the items owning location.   Keep in mind also, that items don’t float until all holds are filled and the item goes to reshelving.  So an item with many holds won’t change circ lib until all the holds are filled.  This has caused problems for our staff since they like to see where items are filling holds, and it isn’t easy when working with floating items since the catalog view isn’t accurate until all the holds are filled and the circ location gets updated.  You have to look at the last checkout location to see where an item is actually at.   Let me know if you have more questions, I would like to update the docs if they don’t cover certain things.   From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Chris Owens Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:02 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating collections   We have begun floating some popular items in our consortium and are running into a problem. We created a special shelving location for the items, but the library that purchases the item becomes the owning and circulating library for the item. The problem is that whenever we check in a new floating collection item that has requests, the item defaults to the owning library's patron rather than the next person on the request list. Does anyone know if we just need to change a setting or is it something more complex? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Owens Director Blanchester Public Library 110 N. Broadway Blanchester, OH 45107 937-783-3585 937-783-2910 (fax) cow...@blanlibrary.org