[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Customize Fines and Due Dates

[Richard Maloley II]

Dan,

Thank you for that additional information. I'm afraid I'm not sure on how to
access these reports - I'm really struggling with the lack of documentation
here.

Here is the information that you requested:

I am using the pre-build VirtualBox version of 1.4.
Linux lenny 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
opensrf.xml:  <legacy_script_support>true</legacy_script_support>
It appears as though the legacy script support is set to true.

My end goals for my client is as follows:
1) Patrons can only check out two items at a time, max.
2) Patrons can only renew an item once.
3) Patrons can only check out a book for 2 days, which can be extended to 7
days.
4) Patrons need to be fined $1USD a day for being late.
5) Email reports need to be sent to patrons and administrators when there
are overdue items.

Is it possible to accomplish those goals with the built-in tools?

Thanks everyone for your help!

Sincerely,
Richard




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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> Hi Richard:
>
> 2009/10/15 Richard Maloley II <richard at rrcomputerconsulting.com>:
> > Nuku,
> >
> > Thank you for pointing that out to me - I can see where I can add new
> > fines/due dates but I cannot see how to make one a default. I see that
> there
> > is a default but when I typed in new information using "default" in the
> > first field it did not successfully add it to the database.
> >
> > Is there a way to edit the values that are already there by chance?
>
> Are you using in-database circulation, or script-based circulation?
> You haven't said what version of Evergreen you're setting up, or what
> circulation approach you're using. This is controlled by
> <legacy_script_support> in opensrf.xml; "false" means that you're
> using in-database circulation.
>
> > In addition - as an aside - is there a way to configure the system to
> > automatically email patrons and the system administrators when books are
> > overdue?
>
> Take a look at Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/generate_circ_notices.pl
> for the "old-school" way of generating reminder and overdue notices
> for patrons. The "new-school" way is to use the trigger/reactor system
> introduced in 1.6, but 1.6.0.0 hasn't quite been released yet, and to
> be honest neither approach is documented anywhere (at least, nowhere
> that I'm aware of).
>
> To alert system administrators, I suggest that you just create a
> recurring report of overdue items that gets emailed to the system
> administrators on a regular basis.
>
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