[Koha-oz] Fwd: [koha-US Mailing List] Call for partners - Overrides

[Irma Birchall]

Hi all,
Apologies for cross posting but thought this could be of interest to you.
Best regards,
Irma
Calyx




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From: BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER <CBRANNON at cdalibrary.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 05:18
Subject: [koha-US Mailing List] Call for partners - Overrides
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>,
partners at bywatersolutions.com <partners at bywatersolutions.com>,
koha-us at koha-us.org <koha-us at koha-us.org>


Good afternoon,

                The Cooperative Information Network (CIN) is looking for
individuals or groups that would be interested in helping to fund an
enhancement for Koha that would allow a session override for checkouts.



The Issue:

Currently, the OverduesBlockCirc blocks an individual from checking out an
item if they have an overdue.  This overdue generates a block/override
message for each item the patron checks out, as long as they have an
overdue item on their account.  This is not a big issue if they have one or
two items that they are checking out.  However, when you have family that
has checked out 25-50 items, and the items are overdue, even by a day, and
they drop them in the book drop and then come to the checkout desk with
another 25-50 items, this can be a burdensome task.  The staff member
either has to take time and locate all the items from the checkout desk and
check them in, or they have to checkout items, and override the block on
each item.



Turning off the OverduesBlockCirc is not an option in our case, because in
general, we want this to stop people from checking items out if they have
overdues that haven’t been returned, and we do not accrue fines.



The Solution:

                We want to create a preference that would allow session
overrides.  The means, when the preference is on, it would allow the block
message to come up, and if overridden, the override would remain in effect
while the staff member remains on the checkout screen for that patron.
Once they navigate away, the override is cleared.



                This project has been quoted to be about $5500 to fund.  If
you are interested in helping to fund this project, please let me know.

___________________________
*Christopher Brannon*
*IT Coordinator*


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