[Koha] Problem with issues after trying to setup issue rules...

[jmf at liblime.com]

Hi Less,

Great that you've had success thusfar with Koha -- congrats on getting it
up and running by yourself!

The situation you're describing is a known bug up through the Koha 2.2.5
series. I believe there is either a fix already comitted in the latest
CVS or else one will be committed shortly. However, there is a workaround
that should work in the meantime before the release. Simply fill out _every_
field in the issuingrules ... the entire matrix for every branch. Yes it's
a pain, but it seems to work at least in 2.2.5. Let us know if it works
for you.

Cheers,

--
Joshua Ferraro

> Hello friends,
>
> We have been happily using Koha for most of this school year at our little
> college library here in Flint, Michigan. We are using Koha 2.2.5 on Fedora
> Core 3. It has been going quite well, until I started messing with the
> issuing rules last week. The librarian was doing all the calculation of
> overdue fines by hand, and I knew Koha must have a utility for automating
> that process, so I began to play around with the "Issue Rules" page in
> Parameters, which to that point was totally empty. I attempted to fill in
> the
> fields for the different types of books and the different types of
> borrowers.
> All of a sudden no matter what kind of book or what kind of borrower, I
> began
> to get an error message upon issuing every book that says: "I need
> confirmation before issuing! Too many issues! (Already issued/ max: a 0/0)
> Confirm issue? don't issue?"
>
> Additionally, the program no longer assumed that the book's due date was
> three
> weeks from today, but assumed it is due tomorrow, and the correct due date
> must be selected for every book! (Librarian very upset over this one!)
>
> I decided it was better before I started playing around with things, so I
> deleted all issuing rules, making every field empty, as before, trying to
> restore it to the previous state of (mostly) bliss.
>
> Unfortunately, we still are getting the described warning message with
> every
> issue, and still have to manually enter the correct due date for every
> book,
> which is totally unacceptable to the librarian, because it takes her three
> times as long to issue each book.
>
> Is there a fix for this (aside from banning me from the library?)
>
> Thanks and blessings be upon thee if you can save me from this mess!
>
> Les
>
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