Bug 37700

Summary: Clarify manual for 'Lift after payment' and 'Fee limit' in Patron restriction types
Product: Koha Reporter: Sara Brown <sbrown>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: Needs documenting --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P5 - low CC: aude.charillon, philip.orr
Version: 24.05   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16223
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Description Sara Brown 2024-08-21 15:25:48 UTC
The explanations in the manual for 'Lift after payment' and 'Fee limit' in Patron restriction types could be more clearly written. Currently, they read:

<Lift after payment: if set to ‘Yes’, restrictions using this type will be automatically lifted after payments equal to or exceeding the amount defined in ‘Fee Limit’.

Fee Limit: enter the amount that must be paid in order to lift a restriction of this type. This field is only used if ‘Lift after payment’ is set to ‘Yes’.>

The descriptions for both make it sound as if Koha is looking at the amount paid, but they actually refer to the remaining balance after payment. 

'Lift after payment' could read "if set to yes, restrictions using this type will be automatically lifted if the patron's remaining balance after payment is equal to or below the amount defined in 'Fee limit'."

'Fee limit' could read "enter the amount down to which patrons must pay their balance in order to lift a restriction of this type. If the patron's balance is equal to or below this amount, the restriction will be lifted. This field is only used if ‘Lift after payment’ is set to ‘Yes’."
Comment 1 Aude Charillon 2024-08-23 13:12:54 UTC
Thank you for logging this, Sara. I have set the status to "Needs documenting" to make sure the Documentation team sees it. You can choose this status at the point of logging the bug.

And if you fancy learning to edit the manual (and fix these kinds of things yourself!), do join us at the next Documentation drop-in session https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Documentation_Team_-_Drop-in_sessions :-)
Comment 2 Sara Brown 2024-08-23 14:09:24 UTC
(In reply to Aude Charillon from comment #1)
> Thank you for logging this, Sara. I have set the status to "Needs
> documenting" to make sure the Documentation team sees it. You can choose
> this status at the point of logging the bug.
> 
> And if you fancy learning to edit the manual (and fix these kinds of things
> yourself!), do join us at the next Documentation drop-in session
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Documentation_Team_-_Drop-in_sessions
> :-)

Putting the next meeting on my calendar! And thank you for the tip on 'Needs documenting'!