http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=748 Summary: Modfy loan length according to borrower category Product: Koha Version: CVS Platform: PC Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: Circulation AssignedTo: chris@katipo.co.nz ReportedBy: shedges@athenscounty.lib.oh.us QAContact: koha-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net It would be nice to control loan length based on the category of borrower, as well as the type of item. That way, staff or teachers could keep items longer than 'regular' borrowers. One way to do this might be to add a "loanlengthfactor" column to either the borrowers table or the categories table. If staff could keep items twice as long as other borrowers, then the loan length factor would be '2'. If a loan was meant to be (almost) permanent, the loan length factor could be '99'. If the normal loan period was two weeks, but children's librarians can keep things three weeks, then the factor would be '1.5', etc. While the sticky due date already makes such things possible, it would still be nice to have this automatically calculated by borrower category. Circ2.pm would need to retrieve the loan length factor from the appropriate table. Then in the issuebook function in Circ2.pm, insert a line (after current line 771) that recalculates the loan length based on the loan length factor -- like $loanlength=$loanlength*($patroninformation->{'loanlengthfactor'}). I notice also that there is some hard-coding of borrower categories in Circ2.pm (starting at line 614). Perhaps my simple suggestion could be made more complex to handle this as well. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.