[Koha-devel] FW: [Koha] Fines for Short Loan Items

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Bernard Shiundu
<BShiundu at 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
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Galen Charlton
Koha Application Developer
LibLime
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