[Koha-devel] RFC for overdue notice enhancements

[Francois Charbonnier]

Salut Paul!

Answers bellow!

François Charbonnier,
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Le 2014-08-25 07:56, Paul Poulain a écrit :
> Le 15/08/2014 15:50, Francois Charbonnier a écrit :
>> Hello all,
> Hi François,
>
>> Here, you will find the RFCs :
>> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Overdue_Notice_Enhancement
> About the replacement cost, a question/an idea : the amount, iiuc, is
> ADDED to the price in items table. Would it be relevant to have 2 
> other options:
>  * the default replacementprice is REPLACING the items.replacementprice
>  * the default is a % of additionnal fee.
>
> I'm not sure there's a real case for the 1st, but I'm sure that, for 
> some libraries, the "overhead" for an overdue document is something 
> like 20% of the initial price.
> Purchase price = 20USD (or CAN ;-) )
> replacementprice = 20 + 4 = 24USD.
>
The default replacement price will not be added to 
items.replacementprice value. It's not a value to adjust what we already 
have.

The default replacement price will be used when there is no value in the 
items.replacementprice column.

For example, the default replacement price is 20$.

The patron lost the book A.
items.replacementprice for book A = 30$.
Long overdue cronjob will charge 30$ to the patron.

The patron lost book B.
items.replacementprice for book B = 0$
Long overdue cronjob will charge 20$ to the patron (the default 
replacement price).

That's the feature we are going to implement.

I agree, we could also update the mysql table to replace the 0 value by 
the default value but it means having access to the database, etc. With 
this development, librarians will be free to manage these values without 
having access to the database.

I also like the idea of managing the replacement cost with a % of 
additionnal fee but it's a new feature. We don't have funding for this 
one so we won't add it to the development. Thanks for the suggestion.
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