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This wiki page is to collect arguments, requirements or use cases in favor or against making material type optional. 

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Make material type optional

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Material Type is not used for any purpose by some institutions. It is not required for circulation. However, because it is required, we have to populate it in the Item Record. This is an extra step and a waste of data. It is always, "Unspecified."

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Kristin Martin

2024-05-22


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Materials is not used for any purpose by some institutions. But because it is required in the item record, when creating an order record that will create an item record, Material Type is required. This means that Data Import also has to map to Material Type (which led to a needless bug, now fixed:
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). This interrupted workflows for libraries that don't even use Material Type for any reason


Kristin Martin2024-05-22

Keep material type mandatory

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