Hello Everyone, I work for a big group of french-canadian library, they have a feature request for the Koha SIGB. They want to checkout books for few hours and days. So i want to work on this feature request and to be approved by the community because it's a long-term project (5 years min). I will make commit on the GIT in few days and i need help to make good job because i begin to work on Koha (i saw the code guidelines). If any similar job was done before me, please tell me because i found nothing on bugzilla. See you later. Brice S. PS : Sorry for my basic English.
My project manager and me have defined the features for the Checkout by hour : "In a Library, a book could be loan for a specified number of hours (eg 4:00). If the book is taken one hour before closing, it can be return the same evening in the letter box or the next morning before the opening and without paying charges (with dropbox mode)." Administration 1 - Home > Tools calendar We need to add hours of opening and closing. 2 - Administration > Issuing Rules We need to add Hour and Minutes in the Loan Period like adding 3 input type="text" Create the needed code to defined the rule 3 - Circulation > Checkouts We need to add a hours and minutes input type="text" Check for "24" hours and "00-59" minutes Check the rule Display hours and minutes in the result of the checkout 4 - Circulation > Checkin We need to calculate the charges with hour and minutes and the hours of opening and closing The same for the dropbox mode. 5 - Patrons > Checkin > Reading Record for {name} Add Hour and minute in the History This is the specifications that our customer needs and that we need to develop and make public. Hoping that this closer to what you want to have.
Not every library may have a book box for returns. It would be nice if you could specify something like: book must be back within x hours after library opening time. Notices? Fines by hour?
Marking as invalid because since then checkout by hour was implemented in other tickets.