[Koha] Possible APP development

[Viktor.Sarge at regionhalland.se]

Hi all.

Great to hear Holger! One thing I like about automatic renewals is that you can hook a cronjob into the existing rules and don’t have add any complexity to the circulation rules in the staff interface. I took a quick peek at the RFC and what I have to add is that you might want to ”allow/disallow” that the _patrons_ turn automatic renewals on/off in the opac. I think it in many cases would be more useful to let those that actually need/want the feature use it rather than all issues. At least that’s my view after pondering Tim and Elaines point about people misplacing books :)

Another thing to add to the wishlist could be a message to send when an automatic renewal is made (defined in letter.pl). Something like ”Hi! The loan ’Learning Perl’ that was due today was automatically renewed and is now due date X. Kind regards/The Library” could help people remeber to keep track of their loans.

I do like Tims idea about using automatic renewals for people with certain zipcodes, but I think it might be better to use it like ”Use rule X with all patrons meeting this criteria”. This could be useful for all sorts of granular permissions but seems (to me) like a quite big RFC in it’s own right. And it would create all sorts of interesting problems.

Kind regards/Viktor

Viktor Sarge
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22 apr 2014 kl. 15:15 skrev Holger Meissner <Holger.Meissner at hs-gesundheit.de<mailto:Holger.Meissner at hs-gesundheit.de>>:

Viktor Sarge wrote:
Ideas:
* Automatically renew loans serverside when possible. Contact the
patron through snailmail, e-mail or SMS when renewals are no longer
possible and set a few days as grace period.
* Create new rules that guarantees a patron a certain loan period but
allows them to keep the book for as long as they like as long as no
reserves are made. Contact the patron when somebody places a hold on
the title with a ”Others have requested the book, and you now have X
days to return it”.

Our library also wants extended loans, that stop when a hold is placed. Not unlimited though, only up to a maximum loan period. We figured automatic renewals would do the job. I'll start writing a patch for an automatic renewal feature very soon:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Automatic_renewal_RFC

Regards
Holger
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