[Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines

muirunyeri muirunyeri at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 18:53:30 NZST 2019


Hi Carlos,
I ran the report which returns a single column with item numbers. It indeed confirms all items are without home branch. However, no batch editing option. 
Any assistance to solve this is highly appreciated.
Thanks

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Carlos Lopez <clopez at dml.vic.edu.au> Date: 15/08/2019  02:02  (GMT+03:00) To: muirunyeri <muirunyeri at gmail.com>, koha at lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: RE: [Koha] Fwd:Re:  Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines 
Hi Muirunyeri
If the homebranch field is empty, you could run a report from this query:
	SELECT itemnumber
	FROM items
	WHERE homebranch is NULL

You should even get a little "Batch modify" button at the top of your results.

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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Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: muirunyeri <muirunyeri at gmail.com> Date: 14/08/2019  22:54  (GMT+03:00) To: katrin.fischer.83 at web.de Subject: Re: Re: [Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines 
Hi,

I have around 44,000 items that were imported from excel. The homebranch field is blank and this might be the cause if the non-calculating overdue fines. How can i edit items to fill this field (batch)? The homebranch field is not available on the items form. If its hidden, how can I unhide it?

You could also give me an SQL code if it'll get the results I need.


Warm regards.






Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de> Date: 14/08/2019  22:35  (GMT+03:00) 
Date:14/08/2019  22:35  (GMT+03:00) To: muirunyeri <muirunyeri at gmail.com> Cc:  Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines 

  
    
  
  
    Hi, can you please post to the list? I will answer there!
    Thanks,
    Katrin

    
    On 14.08.19 19:43, muirunyeri wrote:

    
    
      
      Hi,
      

      
      Thanks for assisting on my query. 
      

      
      I have around 44,000 items.
      

      
      Kindly help me with more info on how to use the batch item
        editing. I cannot see the field containing home library in the
        form when using the batch item modification tool. There is
        however permanent location and current location both holding the
        name of my library.  This two fields are however set and I need
        the home library field.
      

      
      If its hidden, how can I unhide it?
      

      
      You could also give me the SQL code if it'll get the results
        I need.
      

      
      Thanks alot.
      

      
      

      
      

      
      
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          Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
      
      
        -------- Original message --------
        From: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de> 
        Date: 12/08/2019 08:54 (GMT+03:00) 
        To: muirunyeri <muirunyeri at gmail.com> 
        Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging
          overdue fines 
        

        
      
      Hi,
      yes, this is most likely the problem. You need to make sure
        that in all your items Home library (homebranch) and current
        location (holdingbranch) are set for Koha to work correctly.
        Depending on the amount of items you have, there could be
        different ways to fix this: batch item editing,
        exporting/reimporting (matching items) or SQL. Make sure you
        have not hidden those fields from the add item form or have set
        proper defaults set to prevent the problem in the future.
      Hope this helps,
      Katrin

      
      On 07.08.19 13:11, muirunyeri wrote:

      
      
        
        Hi all, 
        

        
        The sys prefs are all well set, the calendar and the fine
          rules.
        

        
        I however observed a very sinister issue which might be
          causing the overdue fine not calculating. After searching for
          a book, in normal view under the home library it is blank.
          This is in like all the books. 
        

        
        Could it be the cause?
        

        
        I only have one library under libraries and the fines and
          circulation polices for all branches are cloned to this
          library.
        

        
        Regards
        

        
        

        
        

        
        

        
        

        
        
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          -------- Original message --------
          From: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
          
          Date: 06/08/2019 19:14 (GMT+03:00) 
          To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz 
          Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging
            overdue fines 
          

          
        
        Hi all,

        

        I think what Caroline described would work well for a dev (git)
        or

        standard (tarball) installation, while things with the packages
        work a

        little differently like Michael describes. So it might depend on
        your

        installation type on what you should do.

        

        For package installations the fines.pl should be scheduled by
        default to

        run daily.

        

        Have you checked everything else that might prevent fines from
        calculating?

        

        - finesmode systempreference?

        - Holidays in the calendar?

        - Circulation rules correct? For example sometimes it's easy to
        miss

        that rules for 'all libraries' might have been overwritten by
        branch

        specific ones.

        

        Hope this helps,

        

        Katrin

        

        On 06.08.19 17:07, Michael Kuhn wrote:

        > Hi

        >

        > >> I think this' where my solution lies however the
        cron -l command

        > >> replies no cron command for my user account. I
        have 2 accounts

        > >> showing i.e. the admin account and the
        koha_instance account.

        > >>

        > >> I hope i was supposed to run it thru the main
        account coz thats where

        > >> I log in.

        > >>

        > >> Or what might I be doing wrong? I believe the cron
        list should have

        > >> something. Please advise.

        >

        > I'm not sure if this is of any help, but in the Koha 19.05
        standard

        > the script "fines.pl" is executed in file

        > "/etc/cron.daily/koha-common" as follows:

        >

        > koha-foreach --chdir --enabled
        /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/fines.pl

        >

        > Thus not in any user controlled crontab. Also the path is
        not

        > "misc/cronjobs/fines.pl".

        >

        > Best wishes: Michael

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