[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Discussion on bulk loan procedures/options/suggestions to outreach "patrons"

[Don McMorris]

(note: I made this a separate message in an attempt to not intertwine
my personal opinion with the facts/goals of the discussion)

One method I have thought of that may accomplish the goals is to limit
the results and split it among different pages.  In the PAC (for
example), searches resulting in numerous items will be split among
different pages w/, say, 25 items per page.

This may be an option to include for screens in the patron record,
such as fines and items out.  Branches can choose a "Max results",
such as 75 (branch level so that Internet/WAN connection isn't
saturated by an individual user opting for 1,000 results).  More
results would require a user to click on "next", "previous", etc.

Even if something else is figured out for outreach bulk loans, a
feature like this should probably exist, as almost surely somebody
will end up with a patron record with 250 fines or something like
that.

Any other ideas?

On 12/25/06, Don McMorris <don.mcmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> A bug was entered fairly recently on BugZilla! (bug 391,
> http://www.open-ils.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=391 ).  In
> summary, this relates to lending items to an organization in bulk
> (500-700 at a time).  In this case, it's a learning center.
>
> The volume of the records attached to the patron causes the system to
> hang when the patron record is accessed.  The library is looking for a
> way to track these items as being on-loan to the organization, but
> would still like the credit for the circulations and renewals to this
> patron.
>
> One suggestion is to create a branch for the outreach location, and
> bulk-reassign the items to that branch.  The concern is that they
> wouldn't get the circulation if it were done this way.
>
> Do you have any ideas as to how this could be accomplished?  If so,
> please post them to the list.
> --Don
>