[Koha-bugs] [Bug 13044] Deprecate old book drop mode

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13044

--- Comment #7 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
(In reply to Kyle M Hall from comment #3)
> I suppose we could make bookdrop mode find the last date open and
> recalculate the fine in full from there. That way it looks the same from a
> user perspective.
> 
> The problem with bookdrop mode is that it is quite fragile. For example, if
> fines.pl doesn't run for a night, and does the following night, then using
> bookdrop mode will decrement the fine by double the expected amount. The
> backdating returns feature does not suffer from this kind of fragility.

It should be noted that we are seeing that the bookdrop mode is backdating
based on the last open day of the item's owning library, not the library the
item was checked in at.  Maybe this is a separate bug issue, but thought I
would mention it.  Ideally, the back dating should be based on where it was
returned.  Otherwise, patrons are being fined inconsistently and unfairly
because the owning library was open the previous day, regardless that the
library they dropped the item off at wasn't.

I hope that makes sense.

Also, perhaps the calendar widget could be made to default to the last open day
when clicked on.  If we went the route of doing away with bookdrop mode, the
permissions that were brought up in comment to could control weather the date
could actually be changed to anything else or not.  ???   Just a thought.

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