[Koha] Setting up autorenewals for a borrower category

[Holger Meissner]

Hi Carlos,

for autorenewals you need to set up a cron job:
misc/cronjobs/automatic_renewals.pl

This cronjob will try to renew every time it runs, unless you specify 'no renewal before' or 'no automatic renewal after'. Both use either hours or days, depending on the unit you choose for your loan period.

No renewal before works like this: Don't renew if due date - X > now.
No automatic renewal after works like this: Don't renew if now >= issue date + X.

For 'no renewal before' there is also a global syspref NoRenewalBeforePrecision. In general you should choose date, not exact time. To autorenew X days before due, set 'no renewal before' to X and don't specifiy 'no automatic renewal after'.

Any one issue can either be autorenewed or manually renewed. It's mutually exclusive.

The RENEWAL notice works with autorenewals, so you don't need the AUTO_RENEWALS notice unless you want a different text for autorenewals.

Regards,
Holger

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> Im Auftrag von Carlos Lopez
Gesendet: Montag, 18. März 2019 04:20
An: Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au>; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Betreff: Re: [Koha] Setting up autorenewals for a borrower category

Thanks Bob

With kind regards from the Dalton McCaughey Library Team

Carlos Lopez

Dalton McCaughey Library | 29 College Crescent, Parkville, VICTORIA 3052
Ph: 03 9340 8888 ext.1 | library at dml.vic.edu.au | library.dmlibrary.org.au 

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Bob Birchall
Sent: Monday, 18 March 2019 1:17 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Setting up autorenewals for a borrower category

Hi Carlos,
'No renewal before' and 'no automatic renewal after' are both measured in days. So those columns are in conflict.
See bug 15581
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15581> for explanation, reading from comment #32.
I hope this helps,
Bob
Calyx

On 13/3/19 3:11 pm, Carlos Lopez wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> We seem to have  a problem with automatic item renewals for a specific borrower type (in that they don't seem to be autorenewing). For this specific group we have the following circ rules:
> 	Loan period			30
> 	...
> 	Renewals allowed (count)	5
> 	Renewal period			30
> 	No renewal before		15
> 	Automatic renewal		Yes
> 	No automatic renewal after	4
> 	...
>
> Our understanding is that items borrowed by this group of borrowers would autorenew 4 times (for an automatic loan period of 120 work days, with a possible further 30 days available after renewing manually. Is that not the case?
>
> We do not have an autorenewal notice set up. Would this make a difference?
>
> We're on version 18.05.
>
> With kind regards from the Dalton McCaughey Library Team
>
> Carlos Lopez
>
> Dalton McCaughey Library | 29 College Crescent, Parkville, VICTORIA 
> 3052
> Ph: 03 9340 8888 ext.1 | library at dml.vic.edu.au | 
> library.dmlibrary.org.au
>

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