[Koha-devel] On-site checkouts and circulation types proposal

[Lari Taskula]

Apologizes, sent my email before I could finish my edit;

> leaves no room for .
... possible new types of checkouts in the future.

Lari Taskula
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80100 Joensuu, Finland

On 1.4.2020 9.24, Lari Taskula wrote:
> Hi fellow Koha devs,
>
> I'm working on Bug 24101
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24101 in
> which our client wants the ability to separately define circulation
> rules for normal and on-site checkouts. They need the ability to renew
> on-site checkouts, define due date calculation parameters and
> additionally specify separate fine rules (not mentioned in bz ticket
> yet).
>
> I wanted to ask for your thoughts on this.
>
> Initially I was thinking of duplicating the rules of normal
> circulation the way maxissueqty and maxonsiteissueqty is currently
> done, but in the end this would lead to duplicating almost all of the
> circulation rules. That would not be very convenient and it seems like
> a short-sighted way of solving this problem because it leaves no room
> for . Who wants to see the circulation rule table doubling in width?
> Not me.
>
> Another, more elegant approach would be to define a new circulation
> rule scope "circulationtype" that defines whether a rule applies to
> normal or on-site checkout (or any other type of checkout someone may
> come up with in the future). Now that we are able to explicitly define
> a scope that a specific circulation rule follows, this would make
> sense. No need for ugly duplication and we can get rid of
> maxonsiteissueqty too.
>
> Anyways, before I start implementing such a change I wanted to ask for
> support from the community, or better yet even cooler ideas. Perhaps
> there is something about Koha that I have missed that could already
> solve their problem.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>

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