Bug 16207

Summary: Incorporate circulation and fine rules for library groups
Product: Koha Reporter: Christopher Brannon <cbrannon>
Component: System AdministrationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: aspencatteam, fiona.borthwick, george, gmcharlt, jzairo, kelly, lisettepalouse+koha, nick
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15522
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Description Christopher Brannon 2016-04-05 16:47:06 UTC
I think we could simplify circulation and fine rules by incorporating library groups into the mix.

For example, I have 27 libraries, and 8 of them follow the same set of rules that are different from the defaults.

So, what if instead of cloning these special rules to 8 different libraries (and who knows how many other duplicated sets of rules there are), we defined a set of rules for a library group.  If the library is part of that group, it goes by those rules.

I don't know if we want to use the same library groups that are already defined in the libraries and groups, or if we want to create a unique Circ rule group.  Because, there is always the chance that one or more of the libraries in the 8 that are grouped together by affiliation or region could have a slightly different set of rules.

However, I think rules by groups would make managing rules far less complicated than managing groups of cloned rules.

Christopher
Comment 1 Christopher Brannon 2016-04-05 16:50:02 UTC
Also, rules for groups should also list the libraries assigned to that group.  :)
Comment 2 AspenCat Team 2020-09-24 17:08:58 UTC
We use library groups frequently in the AspenCat consortium and this would be very helpful - Bob Bennhoff
Comment 3 George Williams (NEKLS) 2020-09-24 19:36:42 UTC
(In reply to Christopher Brannon from comment #1)
> Also, rules for groups should also list the libraries assigned to that
> group.  :)

+1
Comment 4 George Williams (NEKLS) 2020-09-24 19:37:26 UTC
This would be a great enhancement for any large library consortium.