That sounds like a good feature, but I certainly don't fully understand how your system works, or how it interacts with the fines system. I would suggest opening a bug in bugzilla to request the feature be added. Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Martin Longo <jmlongo@uncu.edu.ar> wrote:
En su momento, tajoli escribió:
Dear Kyle Hall,
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:47:52 -0400, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
I just thought of a reasonably easy way to track both the payment made by a borrower, and the payment as applied to charges on a borrowers account.
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The real question is: is this necessary? Do any libraries using Koha need to track total payments against individual fine payments?
I don't know if libraries needs to track payments in this way. In Italy, as standard, we don't use fines. We put days of embargo on user or we ask to pay the value of book if heavily damaged or lost.
But if you do the work, read the MySql documentation here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:dbschema http://www.koha.it/local--files/working/koha303_schema.zip
I'm sure that there are errors, and to have a prefect idea on how the system work, read the code of the API. A one person previous said, there are lacks on constraints, unique keys, indexes.
And please write here any error you find in the docs, I will update them. And also any update on the tables.
Bye Zeno Tajoli
Hi there !...
I want to jump into this thread because, as the italian libraries, argentinian libraries don't use monetary fines but a suspension period (an amount of days depending the itemtype or the borrowertype, etc.)
Since we began using Koha, back in version 2.2, we had to 'do something' to use Koha and change 'fines' to 'suspensions' and reflect that in the system. I'm sure each Koha implementation here at Argentina has it's own way to implement this (via new local tables, scripts,etc)
I was able to implement this feature by "missusing" the accountlines table, adding a local variable, changing a bit mancredit, maninvoice templates and adding some code to fines.pl and some C4 modules....
This "Frankenstein" has been working very well over this years... but the thing is that it would be a lot better if something like this could be included into Koha... so a library could select the type of system to use (monetary fines or suspension days) in System Preferences.
So .. If some changes are to be made to the Fines System, I wanted to add my 2 cents so maybe this changes can made it to the system too
Best regards
-- Ing. J. Martin Longo Depto. Gestion Informatica SID - UNCuyo http://sid.uncu.edu.ar
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