[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34597] Expired patrons can still place ILL requests through OPAC

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34597

--- Comment #2 from Georgia Newman <g.newman at arts.ac.uk> ---
We’ve had an instance this week whereby an expired user was able to place an
ILL request, which we assumed would have been blocked by
BlockExpiredPatronOpacActions. We would want to prevent expired users from
placing ILL requests. Looking through the system preferences, we did think
about whether we could maybe use the LockExpiredDelay preference (and say set
to 1 day), to prevent expired patrons logging into the OPAC at all, in order to
prevent these instances slipping through. However, I think this preference
would be too blunt, as it requires the misc/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl to be
running. Assuming this was say set to run once daily, in the event of a staff
member extending the expiry date of a patron, presumably they would still be
blocked from logging into the OPAC for the rest of the day until the job ran
again. So for us it makes sense to see placing an ILL request included in the
BlockExpiredPatronOpacActions preference, as it seems less blunt than using the
LockExpiredDelay preference to prevent this action.

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