[Koha] Fines question

[Stephen Graham]

Hi Ian - thanks for your reply and help. It jogged my memory and reminded me of the new (to 17.11) account_offsets table. We only upgraded to this last summer, so only have data in there since then. Doing something like the below would give the amount of fines we have written off?

select round(sum(amount),2) from account_offsets 
where debit_id in (
	select accountlines_id
	from accountlines
	where accounttype = 'f' 
	and date between '2018-09-01' AND '2019-01-31')
and type = "Writeoff";

cheers, Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Ian Bays
Sent: 31 January 2019 10:41
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Fines question

Hi Graham,

This may not be perfect, but do you get a reasonable match if you see which writeoff accountlines match the amount of the replacement price for the items?

eg:

select count(*) from accountlines where accounttype = 'W' and (amount = (select replacementprice from items where itemnumber =
accountlines.itemnumber) OR amount = (select replacementprice from deleteditems where itemnumber = accountlines.itemnumber));

If you want a bit more precision I believe the action_logs link the writeoff accountline to the original accountline but that might take some fairly complex SQL and/or scripting.  So for example an entry in action_logs for a writeoff might include in the info field:

$VAR1 = {
           'itemnumber' => '524905',
           'manager_id' => '143623',
           'accounttype' => 'W',
           'accountno' => '17',
           'amount' => '-0.35',
           'action' => 'create_writeoff',
           'borrowernumber' => '206622',
           'accountlines_paid' => [
                                    '1930'
                                  ]
         };

Which in turn points to the original accountline which indicates it is an accountline type "F".

I hope this helps. If anyone has a snappier solution please step forward :-)

Ian

On 31/01/2019 10:04, Stephen Graham wrote:
> Hi All - we have two main ways of generating "fines" - overdue items or book replacement costs. I can see in the accountlines table that for overdue books the fines have an accounttype of either F or FU, and for book replacement costs it's usually L or LR. However, if we write off/wipe a fine the accounttype changes to W. Once this has happened is it possible to work out if the fine was for a book replacement or a overdue item? We've been asked if we can produce a report which has the total amount of all overdue fine wiped off in the last six months, but because all these are now set to W I cannot see a way of distinguishing the two different fine types. We are on 17.11.
>
> Cheers, Stephen
>
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