[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] bookings module - media bookings

[Tara Robertson]

Hi Dan,

I did the same test that you did on Sitka's production server (version
2.0.2) and got the same result as you did.

It worked. Yay! Gordana--did you find the same thing?

Hrm. I wonder if our staff are doing this correctly...

Thanks,
Tara

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>wrote:

>  Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for walking through the whole process. I'll go through it on our
> end with some real reservations and see if we're still having the late
> checkout issue or not.
>
> That being said, I think there are things we need to do to the booking
> module in order to make it a really good tool. Some of the things Tara
> mentioned (being able to see who has a booked item checked out in their
> name, being able to see a listing of future bookings for an item...just to
> name a couple) would make it great. Do you hear "complaints" like that at
> Laurentian?
>
> Thanks!
> Gordana
>
> >>> Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> 1/25/2012 10:51 AM >>>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture
> > reservations; however, we still have the same issues with "late pickups"
> and
> > have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is
> > expected.
>
> So... I just ran through the following workflow on our Evergreen 2.1
> production system:
>
> 1. Made an existing item bookable (through Item Status -> Make item
> bookable)
> 2. Used "Booking -> Create reservation" to create a reservation for
> that item 20 minutes in the future
> 3. Used "Booking -> Capture resources" to capture the item
> 4. Used "Circulation -> Check in items" to check in the item (this
> wasn't necessary according to the docs, but I wasn't looking at the
> docs at the time, so any "transit to reservations" message triggers a
> Pavlovian "must check in" response...)
> 5. Waited 35 minutes, so 15 minutes past the time the item was
> supposed to be picked up, then used "Booking -> Pick up reservations"
> to show the list of reservations for the target patron. The item in
> question was displayed.
> 6. Selected the item and clicked "Pick up". The item was checked out
> to the target patron.
> 7. Used "Circulation -> Check in items" to return the item.
>
> There are all kinds of qualifiers here; this was the first reservation
> for the item, and the first reservation for that patron, and there was
> only one concurrent reservation for that patron, and the extra "Check
> in" after "Capture" might have thrown things off... but I hit no
> roadblocks in terms of checking out a late item.
>
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