On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That aspect of it is an interesting user interface design challenge--people > usually want the circulation work areas to be optimized for fast processing, > but there are a lot of options available in there. The actual user interface > might get cluttered and staff might start to loan things with the wrong > policies, or get annoyed that they have to switch the menu back and forth > from one loan type to another. Those two things start to conflict. > > I might be worrying too much about it--just adding a sticky drop-down menu > for the checkout type might work there. That's what I argued with Paul: I entirely share your worries here. > I think this is something that > someone could add as a separate project after the initial hourly loans work > is done--the actual hourly loans are independent of having more than one > loan type. ++ Nicolas > > Best, > > Dan > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > Daniel Sweeney > Senior Business Analyst - LibLime > > phone +1 (888) 564-2457 x718 > skype daniel_f_sweeney > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > On Oct 16, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Paul POULAIN wrote: > >> Nicolas Morin a écrit : >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Sweeney >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> From a system perspective, I think >>>> you would probably need more than one type of loan, so that you could >>>> give the patron an "in-library" loan for a few hours, using an hourly >>>> circulation policy, then let them upgrade some charges to an 'out-of- >>>> library' loan for a longer period of time. >>> >>> One thing that worries me about hourly circulation is that it should >>> not conflict with a "regular" loan. >>> Case: patron A has 10 books on her account, which is the maximum >>> allowed; she comes to the library to read something "in-library", it >>> just so happens that what she wants is in the stacks: we can't have >>> Koha refuse to do this hourly loan because she has already reached the >>> maximum number of documents on loan for her account. >>> So yes, I think your make an important point here: hourly circulation >>> should not be a "regular loan", just shorter; it should be a different >>> type of loan. >> >> What I was thinking was having something like : >> * circ rules are doubled. We have the "standard circ rule" and the >> "alternate circ rule". each of them being completly independant (one can >> be daily, one hourly, or both daily...) >> * on issuing screen (issue.pl), a checkbox let the librarian choose >> between "default" and "alternate" circ rules. The checkbox being >> preserved from one issue to the other. >> >> Thus, the library can issue quickly on a rule or another one. >> >> -- >> Paul POULAIN >> http://www.biblibre.com >> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc >> NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08 >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
