[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-marking overdue item feature

[George Tuttle]

Your permission level must be set at Grand Poobah. As for 2.0, wouldn't we
all like to know?

George Tuttle
Computer Services Librarian
Piedmont Regional Library System
770-867-2762 x103
770-891-0654 (cell)
770-867-7483 (fax)
gtuttle at prlib.org

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:19 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-marking overdue item feature

What does it mean to be an administrator feature but also
"auto-marking."  That sounds mutually exclusive to me.  How will it be
implemented differently in 2.0?

Lori

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM, George Tuttle <gtuttle at prlib.org> wrote:
> What I found out about the auto-marking overdue item feature:
> 1) Auto-marking items as lost after specific overdue period is an
> administrator feature in Evergreen 1.6
> 2) This feature will also be included in Evergreen 2.0
> 3) It has been successfully deployed by Evergreen Indiana.
> 4) My flowchart of the process: http://prlib.org/Blog/OverdueToLost2.JPG
> (Contact me if it doesn't seem quite right).
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> How customizable is it? The key variable is the number of overdue days.
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> How customizable should it be? As a general rule, simple is better. Though
> you want your ILS to support your library's policy, you also have to
> appreciate that detrimental effect of making software overly complex or
> deviating drastically from the basic software.
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> Questions? Thoughts? Corrections?
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> George Tuttle (http://www.prlib.org/)
> Piedmont Regional Library System
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