Re: [VuFind-General] Prevent renewals of overdue material

[Thomas M. <mi...@fi...>]

I am using the Unicorn driver, so I will look into that. Thought, I wonder if it would be easier to edit the template and make the checkbox disabled. Not sure what would happen though when I click "Renew all Items".

Tom

From: Demian Katz [mailto:dem...@vi...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:05 AM
To: Thomas Misilo; vuf...@li...
Cc: 'VUFind-Unicorn Driver Development List'
Subject: RE: Prevent renewals of overdue material

Are you using the Unicorn or Symphony driver?  In either case, renewability of items is determined by the getMyTransactions() method of the driver found in web/Drivers.  It looks like the Unicorn driver is currently marking all items as renewable, so if that's the one you are using, it may be necessary to add some additional logic there - probably not hard, since there is already a variable indicating whether or not items are overdue.  The Symphony driver already has some logic to block renewals in some circumstances, but it doesn't seem to be taking overdues into account.

Unfortunately, I don't know specifics related to Symphony itself - but hopefully this will help point you in the right direction!

- Demian

From: Thomas Misilo [mailto:mi...@fi...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:49 AM
To: vuf...@li...<mailto:vuf...@li...>
Cc: 'VUFind-Unicorn Driver Development List'
Subject: [VuFind-General] Prevent renewals of overdue material

Hi,

I am currently running Symphony 3.3.1 and VuFind 1.3 and we have run into the problem where users are able to renew overdue materials. Does anyone know of an easy way to prevent this.

Thanks,

Tom

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Thomas Misilo
Systems Administrator
Evans Library
Florida Institute of Technology
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, Florida 32901