Truncate fines when max fine reached

[Jeff Davis]

The max fine on a circulation is a threshold, not an absolute value. Thus, if the max fine is not a multiple of the recurring fine amount, fines will max out at a value greater than the max fine value. For example, if the recurring fine is $0.30 and the max fine is $5.00, fines will actually max out at $5.10. Some of our sites would prefer the max fine amount to be treated as an absolute value (i.e., fines would max out at $5.00).

I have a patch for this, which I will post momentarily.

[Jeff Davis (jdavis-sitka)]

Patch has been pushed to the working repo, in branch user/jeffdavis/lp1145284-truncate-to-max-fine:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b07671a74d8b5eceb01157e3c8768c9e1c62250;hp=c0489034bcafdd720e51ee828742a4607462fb06

This adds YAOUS, circ.fines.truncate_to_max_fine, which is a simple boolean value that determines whether to treat the max fine as an absolute value (true) or as a threshold (false - current behavior).

The patch has been tested against EG 2.2.6. I haven't tested against trunk, but the patch applies cleanly; I expect it will work without any problems.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

WFM. Thanks, Jeff!