[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up grace period in 1.6.0.8

[Thomas Berezansky]

My understanding (from writing a patch for trunk/2.1 to change it) is  
that the grace period is defined on the fine generator cronjob as a  
number of fine intervals before fines are generated. This is a global  
value, but due to other issues (in 2.0 at least) only works for fine  
intervals that are a number of days.

In trunk/2.1 it works differently, where the recurring fine rule has  
an absolute duration of the grace period for the circulation and the  
cronjob no longer takes the parameter.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Deborah Lipoma <lipomad at santacruzpl.org>:

> I would also be interested in knowing how a grace period works since we will
> be migrating to v.2.  We have a one-week grace period on our current ILS
> before fines kick in and would like to keep that policy.
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Vicki Reeves <vickir at beau.org> wrote:
>
>> We've just come up in 1.6.0.8.  We plan to upgrade to 2.x in the near
>> future but we're setting up a new server first.  Most things seem to be
>> working ok except that we have lost our circulation grace period on
>> returns.  Since we have branches with exterior bookdrops which are only
>> open a few days a week, we want a 3 day grace period before the fines
>> kick in on all overdues.  Can someone point me to instructions for
>> making this happen?  Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>
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> Deborah Lipoma
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> Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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>