[Koha-devel] Why not change IndependantBranches?

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

What happens if a borrower has some items due in the future from other
branch and you switch to independent branches?

Regards
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot imagine why altering that syspref would break anything. It does
> indeed only modify runtime behavior. In fact, CCFLS has switched it on and
> off at various time with no negative side effects.
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> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
>>
>> So there's this text in the kohadocs.git en/manual.xml about
>> IndependantBranches that says
>>
>> "It is important that this value be set before going live and that it
>> NOT be changed."
>>
>> The kohadocs.git log message of when that IndependentBranches warning
>> line was added is commit c2885b75d1dd8085df072fcd0af17d1bbe046f90
>> "integrate wayne state manual contents"
>>
>> Anyone know why it's important that this value not be changed after
>> going live?
>>
>> Anecdotes after asking on IRC a few times and by direct mail suggests
>> that some have tried changing it and not noticed anything break - just
>> the behaviour changes and some patrons might not be visible by any
>> staff except a superlibrarian.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any answers,
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