Automatically change items stuck in transit to missing
Some items get stuck in transit and are never found again, it would be nice if these could automatically transition to missing after a customizable period of time, similar to Lost -> Withdrawn and Missing -> Withdrawn.
Courtney DeSear
shared this idea
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Eric Lozauskas
commented
A necessary feature for libraries with multiple locations and items moving around.
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Christy Sayre
commented
Yes, Please! We need something better, because the process of updating these to missing is too cumbersome. For each item, there's a series of steps:
they need to be checked in;
if there's a hold, refuse that;
but then reactivate the hold;
then it might want to transit to its home branch, so refuse that;
then there might be a block of some sort, so continue through that;
And this is all just to get the one item checked in.
You still need to mark it missing, which is a few more steps.
Imagine if have a list of 20 of these. -
Susan Millwater
commented
We had a similar feature in our old homegrown ILS. It was very helpful for staff and customers.