[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] holds

[Jason Etheridge]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Jesse Ephraim
<jephraim at roanoketexas.com> wrote:
> We have noticed that patrons are able to renew items even if other
> patrons have placed holds on them.  Does anyone know if that is a
> settings issue, or is it an inherent flaw in Evergreen?

Jesse,

If you're using the script based circ behavior, this is how you can do
something similar.  Specifically, this will block a renewal if the
item is eligible to fill a hold and no other such eligible items are
available for pulling.

In circ_permit_renew.js:

function go() {

/* load the lib script */
load_lib('circ/circ_lib.js');
log_vars('circ_permit_renew');

log_info("permit_renew searching for potential holds for copy " + copy.barcode)
var hold = copy.fetchBestHold();
if( hold ) {
	log_info("hold found for renewal item, checking hold->usr..");
	if( hold && hold.usr != patron.id )
		return result.events.push('COPY_NEEDED_FOR_HOLD');
}

} go();


http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/PINES-Examples/trunk/src/javascript/backend/circ/circ_permit_renew.js

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