[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Daily Overdue Fines

[Galen Charlton]

Hi Joan,

On 05/30/2012 09:04 AM, Joan Kranich wrote:
> We have an item that was overdue and checked in on May 29^th . It is in
> transit back to its owning library. The daily fine continued to accrue
> for today, May 30^th .
>
> Is there a setting that will cause the recurring fine to continue to
> accrue until the item is check in at its owning library?

This isn't a setting -- once a loan is checked in, it's meant to stop 
accruing overdue fines.

After taking a look at your system, I think the problem is due to a 
timing issue where the initial fine generator run had grabbed a list of 
overdue loans and spent (at least) all day yesterday and into this 
morning calculating overdue fines.  However, in the particular run mode 
that your fine generator was using at the time, it goes strictly by that 
initial list of overdue loans, and doesn't check to ensure that the loan 
hasn't been returned.

I've opened a ticket for one of our support analysts to work with you to 
identify and deal with the extra fines.

As a general note to other Evergreen users, I think this sort of issue 
now amounts to a reason to consider running the fine generator in 
parallel mode with at least two processes -- even if you don't need to 
do that for performance reasons, running it this way happens to ensure 
that if an overdue loan is checked in while the fine generator is 
running, it will be rather less likely to accrue extraneous days of fines.

Regards,

Galen
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