Patrons blocked after turning in overdues
At some point we turned on a setting that apparently punishes patrons for having had overdue items. Depending on the severity of the overdue, it blocks them for X number of days, and staff have no way overriding it. This is for patrons who have already turned in the overdue items and do not have or have already paid fines. Where is this setting and how do I turn it off? Thanks. --Jim -- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.
Jim, There are a few possibilities. You might have set the Suspension in Days on the Circulation and Fines Matrix in Administration ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/patscirc.html#circfinerules). The other option is that you have it set to restrict patrons when they get overdue notices and you can stop this by going to Tools > Overdue Notice Status/Triggers and unchecking the box under 'restrict' ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/noticetriggers.html). Let me know if those work for you. Nicole C. Engard ByWater Solutions 2012/1/19 Jim Maroon <storypage@gmail.com>
At some point we turned on a setting that apparently punishes patrons for having had overdue items. Depending on the severity of the overdue, it blocks them for X number of days, and staff have no way overriding it. This is for patrons who have already turned in the overdue items and do not have or have already paid fines.
Where is this setting and how do I turn it off?
Thanks.
--Jim
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================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.
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Hi Nicole, You seem to be saying that if a library does restrict a patron because of overdue items but the patron finally returns the item to the library, that restriction will not be automatically lifted from the patron’s account when the offending item is cleared from their record? Am I understanding your response correctly? Nora ________________________ Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nblake@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:51 AM To: Jim Maroon Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Patrons blocked after turning in overdues Jim, There are a few possibilities. You might have set the Suspension in Days on the Circulation and Fines Matrix in Administration (http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/patscirc.html#circfinerules). The other option is that you have it set to restrict patrons when they get overdue notices and you can stop this by going to Tools > Overdue Notice Status/Triggers and unchecking the box under 'restrict' (http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/noticetriggers.html). Let me know if those work for you. Nicole C. Engard ByWater Solutions 2012/1/19 Jim Maroon <storypage@gmail.com<mailto:storypage@gmail.com>> At some point we turned on a setting that apparently punishes patrons for having had overdue items. Depending on the severity of the overdue, it blocks them for X number of days, and staff have no way overriding it. This is for patrons who have already turned in the overdue items and do not have or have already paid fines. Where is this setting and how do I turn it off? Thanks. --Jim -- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, Cottage Economy, 1826. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
You seem to be saying that if a library does restrict a patron because of overdue items but the patron finally returns the item to the library, that restriction will not be automatically lifted from the patron’s account when the offending item is cleared from their record?
It has always been the case that if a patron's account is restricted because of overdues that Koha will *not* automatically remove the restriction when those items are returned. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1698 My library is considering this year contributing funding towards a solution to this. If anyone else is interested I'd love to hear. (This is separate from the "suspension in days" feature that was recently added which uses a temporary suspension in library privileges as a penalty for late returns). -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
That's it! We had set Suspension in Days to "1". Thanks! --Jim On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Jim,
There are a few possibilities. You might have set the Suspension in Days on the Circulation and Fines Matrix in Administration ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/patscirc.html#circfinerules).
2012/1/19 Jim Maroon <storypage@gmail.com>
At some point we turned on a setting that apparently punishes patrons for having had overdue items. Depending on the severity of the overdue, it blocks them for X number of days, and staff have no way overriding it. This is for patrons who have already turned in the overdue items and do not have or have already paid fines.
Where is this setting and how do I turn it off?
Thanks.
--Jim
--
================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.
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-- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.
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