Re: [VuFind-General] Multiple item statuses in Voyager

[Andrew N. <as...@gm...>]

Mark - I do remember working on this while at Villanova.  This was a
difficult issue.  My memory on this is a bit foggy though.

Here is an example:
http://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/468748
http://voyager.villanova.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=468748

Not sure if it was solved or not.  Is this an example of the problem?
Catalog shows "Long Overdue" and VuFind shows "Lost."  I know there was some
hierarchy there - but not sure which is correct.

Andrew


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Sandford, Mark <SAN...@wp...>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Has anyone yet dealt with the issue of multiple item statuses in Voyager
> and how VUfind parses that?  For those not in the know, Voyager uses a
> hierarchy of statuses.  If an item is charged out, the status "Not
> Charged" is replaced with "Charged".  However, if an item is marked with
> a status of damaged, missing, withdrawn, etc, it is added as a second
> status.  VUFind only looks to see if something is marked as "Not
> Charged" to determine availability, but an item can be both "Not
> Charged" and "Missing" at the same time.  The current query in the
> Voyager driver seems to only account for a single status, so the items
> we have that are both not charged and missing are showing up as
> available in the display.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know enough about programming to confidently deal
> with this problem.  It seems to me that we need an array of statuses,
> and (like Voyager does) to assign a hierarchy of what gets shown.  The
> problem is, I'm not sure if that's possible with the existing query, of
> we need to create a second query based on ITEM_ID to get all the
> assigned statuses, loop through them, then set availability that way.
> That seems like a lot of extra querying.
>
> Because of the amount of time it would take, and the relatively large
> amount of weeding we do (we're just about out of shelf space here, so we
> weed more than most academic libraries) we don't create separate MFHDs
> for withdrawn copies, we just change the perm location to indicate in
> the OPAC that they're not available.
>
> Thoughts?  Has anyone already solved this?
>
> Mark Sandford
> Special Formats Cataloger
> David and Lorraine Cheng Library
> William Paterson University
> 973-720-2437
>
>
>
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