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Monday Minutes: Circulation Enhancements
by Jessie Zairo on Feb 10, 2025
In this week's Monday Minutes, Nick and Jessie show off new circulation enhancements in 24.11!
Patron Category
Bug 28924 - Allow checkout fine limit to be determined by patron category
Circulation Patron Detail
Bug 35931 - Pre-select items with due date today in the renew column on details page and on checkout page
System Preferences
Bug 14180 - Make "Always show checkouts immediately" a global setting
Bug 14787 - Allow confirm/continue option to circulation warnings at checkout
Sponsors: Colorado Library Consortium (CLIC), Panhandle Public Library Cooperative, and Arcadia Public Library.
Staff Interface
Bug 36064 - Add information about holds with cancellation requests to staff start page
Patron Category
Administrators can now set charge limits for checkouts by patron category in the Patron Category. If the patron category level option is not used, the global system preferences will be used instead.
Navigate to Administration --> Patron Categories. Select the patron category you want to edit. You will see 3 new options.
The new options available are:
- Checkout charge limit (`noissuescharge`)
- Guarantee checkout charge limit (`NoIssuesChargeGuarantees preference`)
- Guarantors with guarantees checkout charge limit (`NoIssuesChargeGuarantorsWithGuarantees`)
Read more about system preferences for "noissuecharges".
Pre-select items with due date today in the renew column on details page and on checkout page
This enhancement selects items that are due today on the patron checkout and details screens, allowing librarians to renew items due today without additional clicks. This mirrors the behavior for overdue items on the same pages.
System Preferences
System Preference: LoadCheckoutsTableDelay
This enhancement adds the ability for libraries to have checkouts always show immediately.
To turn on this new feature, set the new system preference 'AlwaysLoadCheckoutsTable' to 'do. If you find that checkouts are slow, you can add a delay to the table so the rest of the page can load and checkouts can proceed using the new system preference 'LoadCheckoutsTableDelay'.
Circulation Warnings at Checkout
This enhancement adds functionality that will remember whether an action has been confirmed for a particular patron for the session.
While checking out to a patron, if the same checkout confirmation message keeps appearing the staff member can now select to remember their confirmation while working on that patron.
When the user moves onto a new patron the confirmations then reset and accumulate again for the new patron.
Staff Interface Alert
This enhancement adds a "Holds with cancellation requests: X" link to the staff interface home page. This makes it more visible to librarians that patrons have made cancellation requests, and action them (where patrons can cancel holds).
Read more about the options for allowing patrons to cancel waiting holds. Monday Minutes: Patrons Canceling Waiting Holds on the OPAC
Additional Resources
The Koha Community Announces 24.11 Release
Read more by Jessie Zairo