MAX_FINES payment closes open circ

[Chris Sharp]

This is similar to Bug 781803, where James Fournie describes exactly what I'm seeing:

"I've had a report of a case whereby a patron can't renew in the following scenarios:

1. Patron checks out item and overdue's it to MAX_FINES
2. Patron comes in, to pay fine and renew
3. Staff pays fine first and then renews."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/781803/comments/4

This situation causes the following error message in the staff client:

<item barcode> not renewed.\nACTION_CIRCULATION_NOT_FOUND
            Someone attempted to retrieve a circulation object from the system and
            the object was not found.

Evergreen 2.1.1
OpenSRF 2.0.1
PostgreSQL 9.1.2
Debian "squeeze"

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

Adding that the same behavior happens when the stop_fines is CLAIMSRETURNED. Payment of the fines accrued on the transaction causes the transaction to close, despite the fact that the item has not been checked in.

[Alex Lazar (alex-lazar)]

This bug also affects version 2.0.12, which I know is deprecated, but FYI.

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

Another effect of this bug is that claims returned items do not appear in the "Lost, Claimed Returned, Long Overdue, Has Unpaid Billings" section of the Items Out screen. I mention this explicitly here in case someone searches for that problem on the web. ;-)

[Alex Lazar (alex-lazar)]

Should the status of the bug be changed to confirmed?