Hi Dan, I did the same test that you did on Sitka's production server (version 2.0.2) and got the same result as you did.
It worked. Yay! Gordana--did you find the same thing? Hrm. I wonder if our staff are doing this correctly... Thanks, Tara On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvi...@niagaracollege.ca>wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for walking through the whole process. I'll go through it on our > end with some real reservations and see if we're still having the late > checkout issue or not. > > That being said, I think there are things we need to do to the booking > module in order to make it a really good tool. Some of the things Tara > mentioned (being able to see who has a booked item checked out in their > name, being able to see a listing of future bookings for an item...just to > name a couple) would make it great. Do you hear "complaints" like that at > Laurentian? > > Thanks! > Gordana > > >>> Dan Scott <d...@coffeecode.net> 1/25/2012 10:51 AM >>> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvi...@niagaracollege.ca> > wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture > > reservations; however, we still have the same issues with "late pickups" > and > > have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is > > expected. > > So... I just ran through the following workflow on our Evergreen 2.1 > production system: > > 1. Made an existing item bookable (through Item Status -> Make item > bookable) > 2. Used "Booking -> Create reservation" to create a reservation for > that item 20 minutes in the future > 3. Used "Booking -> Capture resources" to capture the item > 4. Used "Circulation -> Check in items" to check in the item (this > wasn't necessary according to the docs, but I wasn't looking at the > docs at the time, so any "transit to reservations" message triggers a > Pavlovian "must check in" response...) > 5. Waited 35 minutes, so 15 minutes past the time the item was > supposed to be picked up, then used "Booking -> Pick up reservations" > to show the list of reservations for the target patron. The item in > question was displayed. > 6. Selected the item and clicked "Pick up". The item was checked out > to the target patron. > 7. Used "Circulation -> Check in items" to return the item. > > There are all kinds of qualifiers here; this was the first reservation > for the item, and the first reservation for that patron, and there was > only one concurrent reservation for that patron, and the extra "Check > in" after "Capture" might have thrown things off... but I hit no > roadblocks in terms of checking out a late item. >