[Koha] koha fees and handling centage

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Tue Apr 14 05:04:39 NZST 2009


2009/4/14 Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com>:
> The implementation for "targeted" payments was buggy and error-prone, at
> best, mainly because there was no unique key on the accountlines table.  It
> resorted to an imprecise and slow subqueries try to generate the desired
> effect, and it wouldn't scale.  So for now you can only pay against your
> balance.
>
Bummer, in the olden days it used the accountoffsets table, with
borrowernumber and accountno as the key.
And you could select the charge(s) you wished to pay. Then It got
changed to just use accountlines and I suspect thats where the
bugginess came in.

> This should be resolved either by the recent patches to make accountlines
> editable, and more broadly, by Ryan's overhaul of fines.
>
Excellent to both

Chris


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