OVERDUE FINES FAILED TO INCREMENT
Happy new year Great ones. I am using koha 18.11 running on Ubuntu 16.04. i have setup a circulation rule but i think i am missing out something because it charges patrons for overdue fines, but just once without daily increment. please i need help. Thank you. Murphy Igbudu Systems Librarian University Library and Information Services Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. +234-8038434748
Hi Murphy, check your settings for "fine charging interval" - if you want a daily increase of the fines, you should set it to 1. Also check your "Overdue fines cap (amount)" for not being too low and "Cap fine at replacement price" as those could keep more fines from being added. Also: Fines won't be increased on days the library is closed, so check your claendar. Hope this helps, Katrin On 11.01.19 09:11, Igbudu Tersoo wrote:
Happy new year Great ones.
I am using koha 18.11 running on Ubuntu 16.04. i have setup a circulation rule but i think i am missing out something because it charges patrons for overdue fines, but just once without daily increment. please i need help. Thank you.
Murphy Igbudu Systems Librarian University Library and Information Services Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. +234-8038434748 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Hi Katrin, I have set up the global systems preferences as suggested. though there is still no overdue charge increment today. the problem here is, it is charging overdue fines once but not increasing the charges daily. i have also seen an instruction in fineMode that ,the systems administrator should schedule: "misc/cronjobs/fines.pl " . i am the systems administrator here but don't know how to schedule it. please i need an assistance. Thank you. Murphy Igbudu Systems Librarian University Library and Information Services, Benue State University, Makurdi. Nigeria. On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 4:20 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83@web.de> wrote:
Hi Murphy,
check your settings for "fine charging interval" - if you want a daily increase of the fines, you should set it to 1. Also check your "Overdue fines cap (amount)" for not being too low and "Cap fine at replacement price" as those could keep more fines from being added.
Also: Fines won't be increased on days the library is closed, so check your claendar.
Hope this helps,
Katrin
On 11.01.19 09:11, Igbudu Tersoo wrote:
Happy new year Great ones.
I am using koha 18.11 running on Ubuntu 16.04. i have setup a circulation rule but i think i am missing out something because it charges patrons for overdue fines, but just once without daily increment. please i need help. Thank you.
Murphy Igbudu Systems Librarian University Library and Information Services Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. +234-8038434748 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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Hi Murphy
I have set up the global systems preferences as suggested. though there is still no overdue charge increment today. the problem here is, it is charging overdue fines once but not increasing the charges daily. i have also seen an instruction in fineMode that ,the systems administrator should schedule: "misc/cronjobs/fines.pl " . i am the systems administrator here but don't know how to schedule it. please i need an assistance.
About this cronjob: Usually it is active, as far as I know. However check your file "/etc/cron.daily/koha.common" for an active line like the following. In Koha 18.11 it looks like this: koha-foreach --chdir --enabled /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/fines.pl Of course, to work this needs a running cron daemon. Also see * https://koha-community.org/manual/18.11/en/html/cron_jobs.html#fines By the way: The given path there ("misc/cronjobs/fines.pl") is wrong. In fact in Koha 18.11 the script is residing in directory "/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs". Hope this helps. Best wishes: Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch
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