[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Limit Sets, frustrations...

[Thomas Berezansky]

Did you add a limit group, circ mod, or copy location to the limit  
set? Without those it doesn't have any way to count copies.

Quoting Lindsay Stratton <lstratton at pls-net.org>:

> I am trying to set up what would seem to me to be a very simple  
> circulation limit set, but I cannot make it work. I am probably  
> missing something very elementary, hive mind, help me, please!
>
>
> Our org structure is very flat: 1 consortia, 42 libraries. Each  
> library shares the patron and item databases, there are many shared  
> policies (circ, holds, fines, etc), but each library is it's own  
> entity and some of them are more individualized than others.
>
>
> For this limit set, I have 1 library that wants to limit the number  
> of it's own video materials, checked out from that library. No other  
> library should be impacted by this limit set. Ideally, no other  
> owning library's video materials should impacted when checking out  
> from the limiting library (to minimize use of the override when  
> handling in-coming hold request video items in case of existing  
> checkouts.)
>
>
> I have added this as:
>
>
> Owning library = GPL
> Items Out = 7
> Min Depth = 1 (this is confusing to me - documentation only  
> specifies to use 0 when limiting your lib's materials at all other  
> libraries... But, NOTHING I enter here makes a difference)
> Global = False
>
>
> The library has 2 circulation policies for the circulation modifier  
> for two different user groups. I have attached the limit set to  
> both. I have variously selected and de-selected Fallthrough  
> (fallthrough to what, though?) In the database, can see that the  
> circ limits are there and linked to the circ rules. But I can keep  
> on checking out supposedly limited materials.
>
>
> We are currently running 2.7.5. We upgraded last month, and I last  
> attempted limit sets in version 2.2, where I was able to implement  
> the circ limits - although it did not discriminate based on item  
> owning library.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Lindsay
>
>
> Lindsay Stratton
> Library Automation Services Manager
> Pioneer Library System
> 2557 State Rte 21
> Canandaigua, NY 14424
> 585-394-8260 x104


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