change requested to view holds screen

[Anne Murray]

Would it be possible to change the view holds screen so each member of a consortium only saw their own libraries holds? There are 2 issues here - firstly, in the UK, Data Protection legislation means that when the whole queue is visible to all members, then one member can access another member's data - this is against the law.
Also, all 4 members of our consortium find the mixed queue very confusing and annoying when there are a lot of holds. We don't interlend and an option for only seeing our own hold queue would be very beneficial.
We are currently on version 2.2.2 but will shortly be upgrading to 2.5.3 (I don't know the other info)

Anne Murray
SEDAR consortium
Scotland

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Hmm, I'm not sure what it looks like in 2.2 (that's an old and no longer supported version of Evergreen and I don't even have test servers for it anymore), but in my 2.6 test server, I can see that there is a filter option for "View Holds" interface for any given bib record.

The filter choice is a checkbox to choose whether to filter to a specific organizational unit by requesting library or pickup library. By default, it goes for the pickup library and for the location I'm logged in as.

I would assume that as long as hold rules for the consortium did not allow for holds of materials at other locations by different patrons (strict no sharing), then the only holds that would show while filtered to pickup at a particular library would be for those library's patrons only.

Perhaps what this would be is a wishlist for new development or a local customization effort to remove the option of deselecting the filter choice and forcing it to stay scoped to show only the holds for pickup at the local library.

[Bill Ott (bott)]

This is several versions old, but at one point I wrote this local modification that would only display the filter options for the system of the ws_ou.

It might be a good starting point for a local customization or a wishlist addition.

https://github.com/grpl-eg/rel_2_1/commit/4fa40b27ad4dbfc7fffc5ac98a5dbdf14f8f4f03

[Anne Murray (anne-murray)]

I should have added that the filter that is there at present is too strict - we would like to see all our 8 libraries on the same list, just not the whole consortiums or one single library. Local library system level would be perfect.

[Susan Morrison (smorrison425)]

I think this can be marked as Won't Fix (unless Triaged essentially means the same thing). In 3.10 and 3.12, and likely earlier versions, the View Holds tab allows for filtering at the system level.