Bug 27492 - Need ability to define hold pickup branches per patron category
Summary: Need ability to define hold pickup branches per patron category
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Circulation (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2021-01-20 05:54 UTC by Minna Kivinen
Modified: 2023-07-01 16:19 UTC (History)
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Description Minna Kivinen 2021-01-20 05:54:47 UTC
Need possibility to define hold pick up branches per patron category.

Case example: our university library is open for all, but we have a lot self service hours when only faculty staff or students have access to library. Our main campus library has most service hours and we would like to define that patrons having category "other" could only choose main library as their pickup place. (although they are able to make a hold to all of our collection at any campus).
Comment 1 Lari Taskula 2021-04-27 13:55:21 UTC
Perhaps pickup locations could be defined in circulation rules instead of branch parameters.

But I am not very excited about touching the circulation rules at the moment, as it has been, and still is, going under some changes.

After some testing, it seems that the current circulation rules user interface is not very flexible and can easily add unwanted rule overwrites. As an example, if you want to have a set of same rules for all libraries, you would use the "Standard rules for all libraries" view. Then, if you want to add an exception for a specific branch, you would select that branch and add the exception. However it doesn't just add only that exception, it also adds all the other rule columns for that branch into the database as well. This means that if you work via the user interface in staff client, you would have to duplicate all the rules just to add one exception.

Swiftly browsing the Koha code, it seems that the backend supports individual exceptions, but the frontend doesn't. Bug 15522 is attempting to change the frontend of circulation rules.