Add "Available now" facet
Add a facet for "Available now" which would filter to only show items which are currently available to be checked out.
This should work with other filters, so for example, people could look for items at Location A that are currently on the shelf and available to be checked out.
This should also work with online content, for example only showing ebooks/e-audiobooks which are available to be borrowed.
Jennifer O'Donnell
shared this idea
The Availability Facet is the Available Now Facet.
At Library only shows works where at least one item is available.
Online only shows works that are online (we cannot have live availability for online content because it requires pinging the econtent vendor for each title, that is why the availability is only populated as the content loads in search results now)
You can combine the Availability Facet with the Location Facet and other facets to limit your search results to materials at a certain locations.
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Jennifer O'Donnell
commented
The availability facet only indicates that the library owns the title, not that the title is available on the shelf to be borrowed. Our patrons want to be able to know what content is currently available to be borrowed, and to further restrict that by location.
Our vendor rep told us in basecamp: "The availability facet is distinguishing between the physical and online materials, but does not indicate whether physical materials are present in branch. And there is not currently a facet that does that."
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Sandi Burgess
commented
Hi Samantha - What Jennifer is looking for is a way to isolate materials Available Now at One Specific Location. On testing, we see the two facets you are describing, but if a copy is available at a different library other than the location specified on the location facet, it shows up on the results list, even though a copy isn't currently available at the location specified on the Location facet.