Patron blocking by lost items and include lost as items out

[Kyle Tomita]

This feature has two main parts, patron blocking by number of lost items and include lost items as items out. A group penalty threshold will be added for lost items. This will restrict patrons who have lost too many items. The inclusion of lost items as items out will be an optional setting, like claimed returned items. This will allow libraries to set what type of item statuses count toward the total items out. Lost transactions that have been closed are not included in the items out.

These features arose from a need to restrict patron access based on lost items. The librarians also wanted to be able to either include or exclude lost items from total items out. The inclusion of the display of lost items on the patron page lends itself to better reporting practices by having everything on their records show up.

[Kyle Tomita (tomitakyle)]

Branch on working is user/catalystit/lp_1154258_lost_items_modifications

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Small suggestions for the branch:

1) The release note doc seems to be using Windows carriage returns; probably need to convert the file
2) The upgrade SQL contains an entry to insert a default patron penalty for org unit 1 (usually CONS) and set a max lost penalty of 10. This might be bad for sites performing the upgrade and suddenly finding themselves with an unexpected new default block entry.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Ben Shum <email address hidden> wrote:
> 2) The upgrade SQL contains an entry to insert a default patron penalty for org unit 1 (usually CONS) and set a max lost penalty of 10. This might be bad for sites performing the upgrade and suddenly finding themselves with an unexpected new default block entry.

Agreed -- IMO, this must be changed before the patch can be merged.
Note that it's OK for the new default patron penalty to be present in
the seed data, it just shouldn't automatically part of the upgrade.

[Kyle Tomita (tomitakyle)]

I am currently working on the changes and hope to have them up later today. Thanks for the input.

[Kyle Tomita (tomitakyle)]

Made the changes outlined by Ben and pushed back.

Branch on working is user/catalystit/lp_1154258_lost_items_modifications

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Picked to master with some minor changes to the release notes to fit the new structure we're using in 2.5+.

Thanks Kyle!