[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC Renewal Circ Library

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

And if it is a bug, it would make sense that the new code is toggled on be
default.  But if it isn't a bug, shouldn't it be toggled "off" by default?

Lori



On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Thomas Berezansky <tsbere at mvlc.org> wrote:

> Since our migration here at MVLC we have noticed that OPAC renewals occur
> at the patron's home library. This caused us some problems when patrons were
> given invalid home libraries (since patched).
>
> I felt that an OPAC renewal should happen at the original circulation
> library, rather than the patron's home library, for a number of reasons:
>
> 1 - A bad home library can break circ rules.
> 2 - An item may only be allowed to circulate out of one library. Thus, for
> some items, OPAC renewal breaks if it tries to base the circulation
> elsewhere.
> 3 - Fines and durations are based on the circulation library. If the
> circulation library changes on a renewal the fine rates and durations may
> change as well.
>
> I wrote code to have OPAC renewals use the circulation library from the
> previous checkout instead of the patron's home library. It is in a branch
> for review, and referenced on launchpad. Only OPAC renewals are affected.
> Desk/phone renewals are not.
>
> The option can be toggled on with a global flag, as the branch stands said
> flag would default to enabled.
>
> Downsides to the change would be anything that depends on OPAC renewals
> happening at the user's home library. I can think of one thing there:
>
> User's home library statistics for renewals go down (in favor of the circ
> library, which goes up)
>
> I think the question up for discussion here is whether the old behavior was
> a bug, making the changes a bugfix that should go into 2.1 (and maybe
> backported further), or if the new behavior is a feature and thus should go
> into 2.2+ only.
>
> The launchpad bug is here:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**evergreen/+bug/806049<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/806049>
>
> The branch is here:
>
> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?**p=working/Evergreen.git;a=**
> shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/**tsbere at mvlc.org/opac_renewal_**reuse_circ_lib<http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/tsbere@mvlc.org/opac_renewal_reuse_circ_lib>
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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