[OPEN-ILS-DEV] acqfest - Requests, include limits, linking to funds

[Jason Etheridge]

Thanks Josh!

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-- Jason
http://open-ils.org/blog/

On 7/20/07, Josh Stompro <stomproj at larl.org> wrote:
> I'm looking at the acqfest google doc
> "http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhcbvgd8_34gn4qm5", at the Requests
> section.  Please consider being able to set various types of limits on
> the requests, like number of outstanding requests.  Number of requests
> in a 30 day period, etc.  This might be useful for organizations that
> want to reign in users that abuse the request feature, forcing the user
> to choose their items carefully.
>
> Also, it might be usefull to link certain users requests to a certain
> funding source.  For example, if Professor X, Professor Y, and Professor
> Z used this to acquire new research materials, and they are all in the
> same department, they would all be linked to that departments book
> budget, and wouldn't be able to request materials with a total cost 10%
> over their budget.... or something like that.
>
> Josh
>
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