Default Shelving Location and Circ Modifier Do Not Work

[Shae]

Originally reported by a customer at 2.0.7, I also tested this on a 2.1 rc system and found the same issue. When you enter the default shelving location and/or circ modifier in library settings, it does not stick. I added defaults to library settings, went to holdings maintenance for a title and added an item. I chose "create with defaults." It did not take the default shelving location and it didn't assign a circ modifier at all.

[Dan Scott (denials)]

Hi Shae: Quick check - did you log out of the staff client and log back in after changing the library settings?

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Note, the default copy location/circ modifier applies only to new acquisitions I think. The labels aren't very descriptive of that, but phasefx pointed out to us that the underlying code had an acq. prefix to them.

For our libraries, we've been using the default copy location/circ modifier in library settings to generate initial values for acquisitions.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Just to follow up, the entries in config.org_unit_setting_type confirmed that they are acq related:

name, label

acq.default_circ_modifier, Default circulation modifier
acq.default_copy_location, Default copy location

To avoid future confusion, perhaps those labels should be updated with an "Acq: " prefix, or more detailed description be added to the description text, which are currently still blank.

[Michael Peters (mrpeters)]

Taking Ben's suggestion, here's a branch that updates the descriptions to prefix ACQ: to them.

user/mrpeters-isl/acq_default_description_improve

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=commitdiff;h=c733bb3aa26a5199ca95134d35f99132e7f7d0e7

[Dan Scott (denials)]

Hmm. I think that the problem might be that these are grouped under the rather generic "Library" group rather than, say, under an "Acquisitions" group.

See config.settings_group; if we added an ('acq', 'Acquisitions') row to that table, then set all of the org unit settings that are prefixed with "acq.*" to the "acq" group rather than "lib", I think we'd be in better shape than going back to the prefixing style of categorizing OUS that we used prior to OU setting groups.

A better description, as Ben suggested, would go a long way too... (See also acq.tmp_callnumber_prefix and others that are similarly obtuse).

[Dan Scott (denials)]

As a means of grouping all acquisitions-related OU settings under a new "Acquisitions" config settings group, I offer user/dbs/lp867465_csg_acq in the working repo.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Testified and mergified w/ master and rel_2_2.