[Koha] Problem checking out to some patrons

[Cindy Murdock Ames]

I've noticed this too on 3.2 alpha.  It seems to be if the patron has 
overdues.  On my test server, I had several overdues on my account and 
couldn't check anything out.  If I checked in everything, then attempted 
to check items out, it worked. 

If this feature is to stay, I think it should be controlled by a syspref 
to allow or disallow checkouts with overdues, and it should definitely 
have a readable warning and an override option.

Just my $0.02...

Cindy

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Cindy Murdock Ames
IT Services Director
Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org



Owen Leonard wrote:
>> A new problem has come up, though, that Koha won't let us
>> check out to some patrons. When we scan or type in a barcode, a thin yellow
>> box--the kind that usually contain message dialoges--appears with no
>> information.
>>     
>
> This sounds very much like Bug 4036 which I reported as existing in
> the 3.2 alpha:
>
> http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4036
>
> In 3.2 the problem you describe happens because there are problems
> with the patron's record which block them from checking out, but no
> error description has been provided to the interface. Koha is saying,
> "I can check out, but I can't tell you why."
>
> I think BibLibre is working on a fix, but I don't know what the status
> of that is.
>
>   -- Owen
>
>