FW: [Koha] Fines for Short Loan Items
Bumped into the mail below on the general list, just cross-posting with a small comment/question I had this same issue and solved it in rel2_2 (which I'm currently running in production) by porting the reserve circulation code from koha neu. The way it worked/works is that items circulating on the hour are issued in a separate circulation module (similar to the 'normal' one) with the data being stored in reserve circulation table and overdue fines being calculated on the fly and posted to accountlines when the item is returned rather than as a cron job. Before I start working on porting it to Koha 3 and submitting my code, is anybody working on this for Koha 3? Don't want to re-invent the wheel ;) ====================== Bernard Shiundu Systems Librarian, Strathmore University ________________________________ From: Ayoku Ojedokun [mailto:aaojedokun2003@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:35 AM To: Koha Mailing List Subject: Re: [Koha] Fines for Short Loan Items If this is the case, I suggest that the issue be looked into. Jesse <pianohacker@gmail.com> wrote: I'm afraid not; all of the fining and checkout code in Koha works in days. -- Jesse _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ________________________________ Yahoo! for Good helps you make a difference<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/isp/control/*http:/us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51947/*http:/uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/>
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Bernard Shiundu <BShiundu@strathmore.edu> wrote:
Bumped into the mail below on the general list, just cross-posting with a small comment/question
I had this same issue and solved it in rel2_2 (which I'm currently running in production) by porting the reserve circulation code from koha neu. The
Stupid question time - is NEU's code in the Savannah CVS, or is it somewhere else?
way it worked/works is that items circulating on the hour are issued in a separate circulation module (similar to the 'normal' one) with the data being stored in reserve circulation table and overdue fines being calculated on the fly and posted to accountlines when the item is returned rather than as a cron job. Before I start working on porting it to Koha 3 and submitting my code, is anybody working on this for Koha 3? Don't want to re-invent the wheel ;)
We're not actively working on it just yet, but one of LibLime's customers would like to be able to set the due date and fines for certain types of loans on an hourly basis, e.g., for overnight loans where an item must be returned by a specific time the following morning. That's not the same as supporting short loans via a separate reserves module, but there are enough commonalities that I wonder if (and hope) that we can use the same issues table for both "normal" and hourly loans. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
________________________________________ From: Galen Charlton [galen.charlton@liblime.com] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:05 PM To: Bernard Shiundu Cc: Developers Koha (Koha-devel@lists.koha.org) Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] FW: [Koha] Fines for Short Loan Items
Stupid question time - is NEU's code in the Savannah CVS, or is it somewhere else?
Its in the savannah cvs
We're not actively working on it just yet, but one of LibLime's customers would like to be able to set the due date and fines for certain types of loans on an hourly basis, e.g., for overnight loans where an item must be returned by a specific time the following morning.
Hmmm this sounds interesting I know quite a few libraries this way who would like that too
reserves module, but there are enough commonalities that I wonder if (and hope) that we can use the same issues table for both "normal" and hourly loans.
Probably, when I did my port it more of a hot-fix (staff were going wild with having to tack pieces of paper to student cards ;)) - didn't take too much time to go into the details beyond making the feature available, manpower's at a premium this side of town :( While we're here just out of curiosity whatever happened to the clubs and something feature that was in dev-week on savannah cvs? Looked pretty interesting to me (for current awareness services) was hoping it would make it's way to koha 3 but it didn't.
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