Wishlist: Suppress holds and transits independently

[Terran McCanna]

We didn't make much use of the Checkin Modifier "Suppress Holds and Transits" until the widespread closures during the COVID-19 outbreak. Now that many of our libraries are closed to the public but still have staff in the building doing certain types of work, we find it would be much more flexible if Suppress Holds and Suppress Transits could be used separately.

Use Case: A library is accepting books returned through the book drop, and the courier is still running between branches, but they are closed to the public. They would like to be able to check in all the returned books and send out the ones that need to go back to other branches, but not fill holds. In this case, they'd like to be able to suppress holds, but not suppress transits.

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

I would agree that these two checkin modifiers should be separated. Our consortium would also find individual modifiers much more useful.

I would also argue that when suppressing transits, items should get a status other than "Reshelving"

If an item belonging to another library in the consortium is checked in using Suppress Holds and Transits, it gets status "Reshelving". So the item looks like it's available at home, but instead it's almost untraceable, at another library. Staff and patrons can be searching for the item, and it can appear on the library's pull list.

I'm not sure if a different status, like "Canceled transit" is appropriate for this situation, or something more involved, but if the separation of the checkin modifiers is being addressed, the item's status should be also.

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

+1 to both

I think a unique status rather than current options both for better information and to report on items for resolution.

Perhaps something like Awaiting transit? Transit paused?

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

I agree as well. I was very confused by the instant Reshelving status when I was trying it out.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

I like "Awaiting Transit" - that seems very clear

[Tiffany Little (tslittle)]

+1 for Awaiting Transit.

[Garry Collum (gcollum)]

Also a +1 for Awaiting Transit.

[Meg Stroup (mstroup)]

Another +1 for Awaiting Transit. Clear and concise.

Also adding agreement that this feature would be useful, per use case in original report.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

To add more to this ticket - if we had the Awaiting Transit status, we'd be able to easily create reports on that status to identify when items have been returned and shelved at the checkin library because staff don't notice that they belong to a different library.

(Right now we're trying to do a kludgy, multi-step workaround.)