Hi Less, Great that you've had success thusfar with Koha -- congrats on getting it up and running by yourself! The situation you're describing is a known bug up through the Koha 2.2.5 series. I believe there is either a fix already comitted in the latest CVS or else one will be committed shortly. However, there is a workaround that should work in the meantime before the release. Simply fill out _every_ field in the issuingrules ... the entire matrix for every branch. Yes it's a pain, but it seems to work at least in 2.2.5. Let us know if it works for you. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro
Hello friends,
We have been happily using Koha for most of this school year at our little college library here in Flint, Michigan. We are using Koha 2.2.5 on Fedora Core 3. It has been going quite well, until I started messing with the issuing rules last week. The librarian was doing all the calculation of overdue fines by hand, and I knew Koha must have a utility for automating that process, so I began to play around with the "Issue Rules" page in Parameters, which to that point was totally empty. I attempted to fill in the fields for the different types of books and the different types of borrowers. All of a sudden no matter what kind of book or what kind of borrower, I began to get an error message upon issuing every book that says: "I need confirmation before issuing! Too many issues! (Already issued/ max: a 0/0) Confirm issue? don't issue?"
Additionally, the program no longer assumed that the book's due date was three weeks from today, but assumed it is due tomorrow, and the correct due date must be selected for every book! (Librarian very upset over this one!)
I decided it was better before I started playing around with things, so I deleted all issuing rules, making every field empty, as before, trying to restore it to the previous state of (mostly) bliss.
Unfortunately, we still are getting the described warning message with every issue, and still have to manually enter the correct due date for every book, which is totally unacceptable to the librarian, because it takes her three times as long to issue each book.
Is there a fix for this (aside from banning me from the library?)
Thanks and blessings be upon thee if you can save me from this mess!
Les
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