Purpose: A floating collection is a group of items that are not housed permanently at a specific library, but belong to whichever library has most recently checked in the the item. Using a floating collection will reduce transit time or shipping expenses if sites do not want to move these materials between libraries.

This ticket here is about how to enable floating collection for a given location.

User story statement:

• As an system administrator,

• I want to have the capability to identify floating collection for a given location.

Scenarios:

Scenario 1: Display in Settings > Circulation > General > Other Settings

• Login to FOLIO Snapshot, as user diku_admin

• Go to Settings > Tenant > General > Location setup

• When viewing the page Locations then a new column for Floating collection displays

Scenario 2: Floating collection for a given location is not enabled

• Then the value No displays. This is the default.

Scenario 3: Floating collection for a given location is enabled

• When the floating collection is enabled for the location

• Then the value Yes displays.

Scenario 4: Edit view of the given New location

• When setting up locations,

• Then in edit mode of New location, below Service points, a new heading Floating collection displays.

Scenario 5: Enable Floating collection for a given location

• In the section Floating collection here a check box is displayed.

• When clicking the check box then floating collection is enabled for the given location

• Scenario 6: Not enable Floating collection for a given location

  • When in the section Floating collection,

  • And the check box is not clicked, then floating collection is disabled for the given location

Other comments:

The permission to Enable floating collection is defined by a separate user permission to set and/or clear out this functionality for the given tenant - see ticket UIU-3164