Provide a quick option for staff to place another hold on the same title

[Kathy Lussier]

This idea came up at one of our holds meetings earlier this week as an easy workflow improvement for staff who are placing holds on behalf of patrons. Quite often when a new title from a bestselling author is added to the catalog, staff need to place holds for multiple patrons who have a standing request for titles from this author. By adding a "place another hold on the same title" link to the holds success screen, we can save some clicks for staff. The link may also be useful when placing holds for book clubs. This link will only appear when logged into the client.

Working branch is forthcoming

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Working branch available at

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/kmlussier/lp1423922-place-another-hold-link

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Kathy, this looks neat. Question: would we want to propagate the hold type and target from the original hold, rather than forcing type=T and the full bib? Of course, I'm not sure how much more work that would actually take, or if there's enough info available in that success interface to do that.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Yes, I think that's a good idea, and it looks perfectly doable. I'll poke at it.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Removing pullrequest while I try to figure out why some parameters aren't being maintained with the mkurl I'm using.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Slapping the pullrequest back on now that I've figured out why my parameters weren't propagating. I force pushed the changes to my working branch. I don't know if there will be many situations where staff use this link for copy- or volume-level holds, but I also adjusted the labeling to provide an accurate description of what's happening in each case.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Pushed to master for 2.8 beta.