[Koha-devel] RFC : More granular rules for Reserves

[Nahuel ANGELINETTI]

Le Thu, 21 May 2009 11:05:33 +0100,
MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> a écrit :

> Nahuel ANGELINETTI <nahuel.angelinetti at biblibre.com> wrote:
> > MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> a écrit :
> > > Why shouldn't we revalidate the rights at the user checkout event?
> >
> > The problem is, if the user have a reserve on a biblio record(not a
> > specific item), we don't know how to count the remaining rights on
> > the library where the item is checked-in.
> > Like this:
> > Library1 : 2 reserves maximum
> > Library2 : 3 reserves maximum
> >
> > Record1 : 1 item in Library1, and 1 item in Library2
> >
> > User1 have 2 reserves to Library1 et 2 reserves to Library2
> > When he will do the reserves on Record1, he will have the right to
> > reserve, because he still have a right on library2 which have an
> > item of this record.
> > But then, when the librarian check-in the document on Library1, do
> > we put the document for the User1?(because he had no more rights on
> > this library)...
> > It's quiet difficult to manage think kind of case. Or we can force
> > the user to choose a library where he want to check-out the item.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I'd offer the user the choice, with a sensible default (their home
> library?  the place they have most unused rights?  the place they use
> most often?).  That seems the best solution.
> 
> I don't understand "force the user to choose".  It's offering a choice
> because there seems no good way to solve this automatically.

So, we "force him" choosing the checkout library? He cannot anymore
choose "next available"?

bests,

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Nahuel ANGELINETTI