[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25711] Add ability to define expiredpickup charge for patron category and item type

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25711

Peter Vashchuk <stalkernoid at gmail.com> changed:

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Bug 25711: add ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge to circulation rules

Add a feature that allows to define ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge
in circulation rules per specific items/patron categories.
When value not found in circulation rules it uses global
ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge, as it was before this smart-rules
feature was introduced.

To check the feature after applying the patch:
    1) Go to /cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl and set
ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelay to allow.
    1) Go to /cgi-bin/koha/admin/smart-rules.pl circulation rules table
and notice the newly added "Expire reserve charge" row.
    2) In that row add numerical values to type/patron categories
that you will be using later to test this feature.
    3) Prepare an item for our next step, pick a biblio that has item
with the same item type you altered in smart rules and check it out.
    3) Place a hold on that item and set the expiration date as the
next day.
    4) Check in it after that.
    5) Do SQL request to change expiration date manually to "yesterday":
in "reserves" table, find the id of the hold that you placed and
"UPDATE reserves SET `expirationdate`='2020-07-19' WHERE
`reserve_id`=329;"
 Or alternatively:
    5) Wait for tomorrow, change server time or invent a time machine.
    6) Run cancel_expired_holds.pl cron job.
    7) Check that patron got charged in "accounting" left tab and
"transactions" upper tab: your patron should have debt of that amount
of fee you assigned in that rule
(/cgi-bin/koha/members/boraccount.pl?borrowernumber=...YourPatronID...)
    8) You can repeat this with other rules and different
numbers/biblio/item types to check that different fees apply according
to smart rules.
    9) If there's no matching smart rule or smart rule have an empty
string as a fee - global ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge variable
value will be used.
   10) But in case if matching rule has zero ("0") as a value - that
allows to have no-fee smart-rule results, as a feature.

IMPORTANT:
Smart-rules filters only applied to item-level holds, when item-type
for items is known. If there's biblio-level hold, then again global
ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge value will be used (as well global
one can be empty or zero).

Mentored-by: Andrew Nugged <nugged at gmail.com>

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