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Handling Patron Accounts and Fines in the NExpress Shared Regional Catalog

Posted on February 22, 2010 by mcoalwell

Guidelines:
1. Always look up a patron who asks for a library card. He or she may already have an account at another NExpress library. Explain to the patron that one library card works at all NExpress libraries.
2. If you find an existing account for the patron, look to see if there are fines, overdue materials [...]

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Patron fine exceeds maximum amount of $3.00 per item

Posted on February 22, 2010 by mcoalwell

There is a bug in Koha wherein:

Adding a repeatable holiday creates holidays retroactively for Koha’s calendar
module.  fines.pl balks when it sees an overdue fine calculation where amount
!= amountoutstanding (it assumes a payment was made, so tries to adjust the
amountoutstanding appropriately).  This fails if the calendar module reports a
smaller number of fine-inducing days on one run [...]

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