http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8137 --- Comment #8 from Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> --- Kyle, ping !!! You haven't answered my last-august question, and this patch seems lost in limbos. Could you answer and try to have it exiting from "in discussion" ? thx (In reply to comment #5)
QA Comment:
This patch is highly sensible, because it changes Circulation behaviour. It replaces: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM issues JOIN items USING (itemnumber) WHERE borrowernumber = ? AND issues.branchcode = ? (or AND items.homebranch = ? or nothing, depending on sysprefs)
by a simple SELECT COUNT(*) FROM issues WHERE borrowernumber = ?
Digging into the code, I see that the comparison is made against GetBranchBorrowerCircRule, which retrieve data from branch_borrower_circ_rules
Looking at admin/smart-rules.pl, I see that the description says: ========= Checkout limit by patron category for <<LIBRARY NAME>>
For this library, you can specify the maximum number of loans that a patron of a given category can make, regardless of the item type.
If the total amount loanable for a given patron category is left blank, no limit applies, except possibly for a limit you define for a specific item type. =========
I feel it's unclear. What does "For this library" mean exactly ? is it "for items checked out from this library" "For patrons registered at this library" ?
The sub GetBranchBorrowerCircRule is called with $branch and $cat_borrower parameters $branch is filled depending on sysprefs by _GetCircControlBranch, that return a value depending on CircControl syspref
the patch, if I understand it well, understand the smart-rule.pl description as: "For patrons registered to this library, you can specify the maimum number of loans, all branches included" So it discard the behaviour: "You can specify the maximum number of loans that a patron can do from this library"
As a conclusion, I feel that this patch could unplease some libraries. Maybe more explanations are needed on smart-rules.pl.
Is there something I misunderstood ? (Am I clear in my explanations -because it's quite tricky- ?)
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