[Koha] Borrowers vs Branches vs Circulation...

[Tomasz Holdowanski]

Hello again,

I`m back from vacation and still struggling with assigning Borrowers 
to Branches. Thanks to Steven F. Baljkas for his reply, his solution 
could work, but it`s too troublesome to maintain. However, in Koha 
documentation I found that I can set "IndependantBranches" variable 
so branches are treated as independant libraries with common database 
but access only to their "own" records and borrowers. That`s better 
than common everything, but still no good for me. What I need is:

- a common book database for all branches, WITH proper restrictions 
(no modifications, circulation etc. of items from other branch);
- a common borrower database for all branches, but I need ....
- ... ability to assign a borrower to one, two, three or all branches 
with respectable issue rules...
- ... and respectable membership policies, which actually narrows to 
enrollment period and enrollment fee...
- ... with fines / payments COMMON to all branches a borrower belongs 
to. I mean: acount suspended in one branch - automatically suspended 
in all and so on.

In other words, I need my branches independent in area of 
adding/modifying items and circulation, and enrollment periods and 
fees. Everything else: borrower account / card number, fines account 
and so on I want COMMON. I`m dreaming about set of checkboxes with 
branch names and fields containing dates of membership expiry in 
borrower properties page.

Can it be done in KOHA 2.2.4? Later version, maybe? How? I really 
need this feature, because if I can`t make my branches independant in 
the exact way I described above, the system will be useless for my 
library and I will be forced into another commercial or at 
best  free, but not open source software. And I wouldn`t like that :(

Please help!
Regards,
Tomasz.



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