[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - fine thresholds and automatic forgiving of fines

[Jesse]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Galen Charlton <galen.charlton at liblime.com>
wrote:

> A LibLime customer would like the ability to periodically forgive
> patron fines if the patron's balance is less than a threshold set by
> the library. To meet this requirement, we propose to implement a batch
> job or tool.
>
> The job would take the following parameters:
>
>   1. branches, patron categories, and item types, and fine account
> types to identify fines to forgive
>   2. an amount establishing the maximum threshold to forgive
>
> For each patron, if the total balances of the fees of the specified
> type are below the threshold, the job would forgive all of those
> fines.
>
> The job would have a dry-run mode to allow the administrator to check
> the results of running it before committing to the fine forgiveness.
>
> For more information on this proposal, please consult the Koha wiki at
>
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_fine_thresholds
>
> Thanks in advance for comments.<http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel>
>

This actually sounds very nice. Would it be possible to add that same
dry-run functionality to fines2.pl (or whatever the fines script will be)?
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