[Koha] Comment Needed: Renewing of Lost items

[DeMuth, Jennifer]

Hi, 

We have seen this happen here in Roseville. I think preventing the ability to renew a lost item would be great, I know we would love that here, but maybe a system preference would be best for those who would like to still renew them. 

Thanks,

Jen DeMuth
Library Specialist 
Technology & Support Services
City of Roseville
225 Taylor St. 
Roseville, CA 95678
916-774-5238 desk
916-773-5594 fax
www.roseville.ca.us/library




-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Kyle Hall
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:36 PM
To: Koha
Subject: [Koha] Comment Needed: Renewing of Lost items

Attention Librarians!

We need some input for dealing with Bug 9805 - Lost items are un-lost if returned, but not if renewed.

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9805

The issue is that renewing a lost item does not mark it as found. I filed a patch to correct the issue, but there are concerns about patrons being able to 'un-lose' items by renewing from the OPAC.

We have two proposed solutions solutions:
1) Prevent the renewing of lost items
2) Make renewing a lost item marking it as found controlled by a system preference

I submitted a patch for the latter solution, but after some thought I and some other developers think the former solution would be best. What do you all think?

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
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