[Koha-devel] Automatic managment of debarred users (proposal - request for comments)

[Paul POULAIN]

Andrés Tarallo a écrit :
> Our library has as a rule that, when a member has overdued items it's 
> automatically debarred. In koha we don't have this feature.
> 
> We are planning to add this feature with a perl script run from the 
> crond; this script will run during the night and mark as debarred the 
> members that are suitable.
> 
> On the other hand we need to handle this situation: a user with overdued 
> items returns the items. He will continue debarred till a date computed 
> by the librarians, in that date he will be allowed his rights again.  To 
> handle this automatically we think about ading a field to the members 
> table. This field will handle the date were the user will recover his 
> rights. We'll pretend to run a program that will let the users recover 
> their rights, after the date saved in the database.

iirc, that's already in the "argentina" version of Koha (or something 
like this feature. Emiliano spoke of "debarred" rules wrking like actual 
"fines" rules.
. Ask Emiliano for it's code (& ask/bug him to commit the corresponding 
code too ;-) )

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)