Labels for the Deposit/Rental-fee fields are misleading.
Bug #1776939 reported by
Nathan Eady
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evergreen |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Catalog a new item.
2. Leave Deposit? set to No, because your library doesn't use deposits.
3. Accidentally fill the item's price into the Deposit Amount field,
instead of the Price field.
4. Finish cataloging the item as normal.
5. Later, attempt to check the item out to a patron.
Actual Results:
Deposit is required.
Expected Results:
I am not entirely sure what the ideal behavior would be at checkout time.
However, there should be a warning of some kind when saving the record with this inconsistency in the first place.
summary: |
- "No" value for the "Deposit?" field is ignored if Deposit Amount is - nonzero + Labels for the Deposit/Rental-fee fields are misleading. |
tags: |
added: cataloging removed: webstaffclient |
tags: | added: usability |
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Adding context:
There is support in Evergreen for the concept of copies that require a "rental fee" to check out.
The way you specify a rental fee as being required for an item is to place a non-zero value in the Deposit field and specify Deposit Required? of False.
There may be room for improving the documentation, display, or other aspects of this.