[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circ Modifiers not working as expected

[Thomas Berezansky]

Circ matchpoint rules without a defined circulation modifier will  
match *any* circulation modifiers. This is an extension of the more  
generic rule of "an empty match field in the circ or hold matrix  
matches anything" - that is, if you don't fill in a field (leaving it  
NULL in the DB) then it doesn't get used as a limiter.

Thus, if you have more specific rules without circ modifiers your circ  
modifier based rules will not be consulted.

On a different note, Duration and Fine rules should exist on the  
Admin->Server Administration menu in the staff client.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting John Morris <jmorris at beau.org>:

> Obviously I'm missing some basic assumption about how circ modifiers
> work.  Up until now we didn't need them, as we managed to get all of our
> policies implemented without them.  But we are just starting to
> circulate laptops and they can't be shoehorned in.
>
> So in addition to the default policy the system was initially installed
> with I added BTOP-Laptop with the following:
>
> Permission Group: Users
> Circulate: Yes
> Duration Rule: 7_days_0_renew
> Max Fine Rule: overdue_equip_max
> Recurring Fine Rule: 10_dollar_per_day (I created this entry in the
> database manually, couldn't find an exposed UI for creating new ones)
> User Age Lower Bound: 18 years
>
> Then I put this circ modifier on all ten laptops.  So everything should
> be good, yet when we tried to circulate one we still got the default two
> weeks for the due date. Should it not always apply the circ modifier and
> either make it one week or if something is wrong not allow a checkout at
> all?
>