Holdings Import Profile Should Support All Applicable Item Attributes

[Jennifer Pringle]

Wishlist

Evergreen 2.6.0

Currently there are a number of item attributes that can be applied to items through the copy editor but are not available when importing item records using the batch loader (Cataloguing -> Marc Batch Import/Export -> Holdings Import Profile). This means staff still have to go into the item record for each item to apply these attributes as needed.

The attributes that are currently missing are:

- Floating?
- Loan Duration
- Fine Level
- Age-based Hold Protection
- Quality

Ideally these attributes should also be available as subfields that can be set up in the provider record in acquisitions (Admin -> Server Administration -> Acquisitions -> Providers -> Holding Subfield) so they can be used when loading records through acquisitions. (See LP 1302718)

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

Related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1376435

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Adding copy stat cats as another field we would like to see here.

[Martha Crawley (mcrawley)]

I'd like the vendor to be able to include Parts in the MARC holdings tag.

[Remington Steed (rjs7)]

For the record, importing Parts was added to Evergreen 2.10 (though the documentation is still catching up):

https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_10.html#_support_for_monograph_parts_import_in_marc_batch_import_export

And importing Stat Cats was added in Evergreen 2.9:

https://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_9.html#_importing_statistical_categories

[Lynn Floyd (lfloyd)]

I hope when the rewrite in Angular happens these can be added.

[Clare Irwin (cirwin)]

I have been working towards having our vendors add 852 tags to our marc records so that items add or overwrite on-order items when imported and would like to have the item attribute for floating items added as a subfield. So the issue of making all item attributes available in the Holdings Import profile is still very relevant and would be appreciated in current and future versions. We are currently using Version 3-7-2.