[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26350] Librarians can request discharge on behalf of patron

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26350

--- Comment #8 from Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin at rot13.org> ---
That is true for the first discharge. After that, Generate discharge will
always return just last discharge.

If patron restriction is removed, patrons can request another discharge on
opac, but librarians can't do that in current implementation.

We are discharging students at the end of every year and sending discharges to
the student services, so that students can enroll in next year.

For us, it's essential to be able to generate discharge even if there is
existing one, without the need for a student to do anything since we do have
students with special needs which are unable to use opac (or web at all).

After students enroll in the next year, we remove patron restriction and repeat
the whole process for each year they are with us.

Does this make more sense now?

For us, librarians who request discharges are not the same ones who will allow
it.

We have local changes that also track librarian borrowernumber to be able to
print name of a librarian who approved a discharge, but that will require
cleanup (and implementation of permissions) before we can submit that part.

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