Loan period only one day for patrons with borrower status nn

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 17.01

Description:
This happens for GRADUATE STUDENTS (type 02) patrons only.... We can charge a book to a graduate student, but it checks out for only 1 day and immediately reports that the item is overdue.

Resolution:
The tables involved are tab16 and tab31. Patron status 02 is included in tab16 column 4 and the "Days added" for this line is 00000021, but the line for patron status 02 in tab31 (column 2) is commented out. This means that the default, wildcard line will be used:

! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 14 15 6 7 8 9 0 1
!!!!!-!!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!!!!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!-!-!-!-!!-!-!
ABC50 ## Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y F + Y 00000001 0000010000 Y N N 30 N N

Column 3 has "Y", permitting loan, but the "00000001" in column 14 means that when a new patron is created, the z305_expiry_date (in the Local Patron Information) will be today's date + 1.

You should check the "Expiration Date" in the patron's Local Patron Information.

Since you have "BOR-EXPIRY-DUE-DATE=Y" in abc50 tab100, this means that the Expiration Date is used as the due date.

You need to either change this "ABC50 ##" line or explicitly add an "ABC50 02" line with a greater value.

Jerry

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013