[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self Check / ILL issue - Blocking checkout

[Josh Stompro]

Hello Everyone,

My coworker is working on an issue with out of state ILL items, that we always want to have due on a specific date, even when the customer doesn't pickup the item right away.  And she has been trying to figure out if there is a way to block a specific item from being checked out at the self check, but allow it to be checked out by staff without using an override.

With these items we don't want them to go on the holdshelf, since we need staff to read the documentation attached and set a specific due date.  But they will accidentally get placed on the hold shelf, so we would like the self checks to not process the checkouts.

I've looked at hard due dates documentation, but that doesn't seem like it would since this situation isn't what it was designed for.  We have also looked at using item alerts, but blocking based on the alert event would affect too many users negatively in our system since we use the alerts for situations that don't require a checkout to be blocked.

We would like to avoid setting the items to non-circulate since that would require staff to override, which we don't want to be a common occurrence that staff get used to.

If something to address this doesn't already exist, would anyone else find it useful to be able to block checkouts at the self check for specific items, but allow the checkout for staff users without an override?  Maybe the self check could block based on a list of circ_modifiers?  If something like this may be useful to more than one location, it might make a good enhancement.

Thanks
Josh

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