Koha Question of the Week: Can an Item Template Be Applied to an Existing Item?

by Hebah Amin-Headley on Nov 10, 2023

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Question: Can an Item Template Be Applied to an Existing Item?

Answer: The ability to add an item template for new items was one of the exciting enhancements in 22.11 during the last upgrade cycle. From that, the question naturally arises whether item templates can be applied to existing items to make cataloging more consistent within a library system.

The answer is, not currently. There is an enhancement request in the Koha community to introduce item template functionality within batch item modification, but it doesn't currently exist.

So the current workflow for making batch changes to existing items still requires using the batch item modification tool and individually selecting the item fields to update.

Additional Resources

Monday Minutes: Batch Item Modifications

Monday Minutes: Using Regex in Batch Item Modification

Monday Minutes: Item Templates