Search by barcode

RA SIG sees this as a core function / need for go-live at a minimum.

Erin / Andrea
Duke

Good points, @Emma Boettcher. Sounds like it's not a good workaround, after all

@Cate Boerema In that situation, it would affect in-house use stats (as they're intended to be counted). In-house use is defined as a scan of a recently returned or available item that results in a status of recently returned or available. I see Chalmers has ranked in-house use as not-needed, though, so perhaps it's not a priority to count that accurately and they could use this as a workaround, but I don't think it'll work long-term for other places.

This raises some other questions, though: is the person scanning the item assigned to a service point? Is that service point necessarily assigned to the item's home location (will this item go in transit and then have to be scanned again to come out of of transit)? What happens if scanning the item alerts the user to other information (it's Missing, it's on hold for someone), and will the person scanning be equipped to deal with all of those?

Hi @cate, that possible workaround using the check in app is only supposed to be a temporary solution, for Chalmers to use Q2 2019, right?
Or are you suggesting it to replace the basic barcode search in Inventory (UIIN-143)?

Possible workaround might be to scan the item in check in and them select item details from the action menu. It's more clicks, though (3 clicks as opposed to, presumably, 1).

Would the extra scans in check in check in negatively affect in house use statistics? Based on what I think @Emma Boettcher recently said about plans for In House Use feature (https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/UXPROD-81#icft=UXPROD-81), I don't think it would. She'd have to confirm, though.