What does it mean to be an administrator feature but also "auto-marking." That sounds mutually exclusive to me. How will it be implemented differently in 2.0?
Lori On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM, George Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > What I found out about the auto-marking overdue item feature: > 1) Auto-marking items as lost after specific overdue period is an > administrator feature in Evergreen 1.6 > 2) This feature will also be included in Evergreen 2.0 > 3) It has been successfully deployed by Evergreen Indiana. > 4) My flowchart of the process: http://prlib.org/Blog/OverdueToLost2.JPG > (Contact me if it doesn't seem quite right). > > How customizable is it? The key variable is the number of overdue days. > > How customizable should it be? As a general rule, simple is better. Though > you want your ILS to support your library's policy, you also have to > appreciate that detrimental effect of making software overly complex or > deviating drastically from the basic software. > > Questions? Thoughts? Corrections? > > George Tuttle (http://www.prlib.org/) > Piedmont Regional Library System > > > > >
