[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC Renewal Circ Library

[Thomas Berezansky]

If it is not a bug then for upgrade scripts it may be best to default  
it to "off", yes. If it is a bug then upgrade scripts should default  
it to "on". At least in my opinion.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>:

> 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?
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> Lori
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> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Thomas Berezansky <tsbere at mvlc.org> wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> The option can be toggled on with a global flag, as the branch stands said
>> flag would default to enabled.
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>> 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:
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>> User's home library statistics for renewals go down (in favor of the circ
>> library, which goes up)
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>> 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.
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>> The launchpad bug is here:
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**evergreen/+bug/806049<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/806049>
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>> The branch is here:
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>> 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>
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>> Thomas Berezansky
>> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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