Comment 2 for bug 1485077

The code linked in bug 1308239 is specifically meant for external integration. If the desired outcome is to allow completely human-driven ILL to use the same backend mechanisms, I suggest strongly that that should be an org unit setting that uses the workstation org unit for context.

For background, the design of pre-cats is that they "disappear" from the system after check in, from the point of view of circ staff, so that each time a staff member scans a particular barcode that has not passed through cataloging they are required to fill in the "dummy" fields. IMO, staff manually "faking" ILL doesn't change the reasoning behind the human-level behavior.

In fact, based on the description, I think the bug is actually that the user can close the dialog when the pre-cat already exists and have the originally entered information persist.