[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24988] autorenew_checkouts should default to yes

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24988

--- Comment #10 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #8)
> I do not really understand why autorenewal should default to Yes.

I suspect most people would be in favour of autorenewal (I know I am as a
library patron - very handy functionality), and it's more likely there would be
a minority of people wanting to refuse it. Hence default to yes.

> Suppose that you have set Autorenewal off for all your circ rules. And now
> you see allow auto-renewal popping up everywhere..
> This is quite confusing.
> Imo we need more checks than just default to Yes.

As I noted on bug 24476, I don't think it's quite that simple. Even if all the
autorenewals are turned off in the circ rules, you might have current checkouts
that are still marked as autorenewal (which I think still get processed as
autorenewals although I should double-check that), and you can choose to make
an item an "Automatic renewal" by going into "Checkout settings" when checking
out an item.

I do agree though that it's complicated. On the surface, it seems silly to
allow a patron to control an autorenewal setting if the library doesn't
actually use autorenewals, but I think they're conceptually two different
things. One is marking an item as an autorenewal, and the other is the patron
allowing items to be autorenewed. 

(Of course, I wonder why a patron should be able to turn off autorenewal, but I
don't really like how autorenewal has been implemented overall and how it
prevents manual renewals. But that's another matter...)

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