Add a tab "re-loan" to Patron Services to return and re-loan items in one step
An additional tab (e.g. "re-loan" or "Wiederausleihe" in German) would be a valuable improvement to the Patron Services page.
The goal of this tab is the returning and re-loaning of an item to the patron in one step, with a pop-up warning if there are requests present in the request queue.
The option of a re-loan tab would be a big help in cases where large amounts of items are reloaned to the same person when the items reach the maximum amount of renewals. The additional tab would make the process easier, less error-prone and especially faster.
Florence Lanz (UBE, SLSP)
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Anonymous
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@Moshe Shechter, Yes it would be different from a renew ("Verlängerung") as we wish to reset the loan itself and set it back to its original status so the user has the book "newly" borrowed with 5 possible extensions/renewals (and the loan date would also be updated to the day this re-loan happened).
Best, Sabrina Mutti (UBE, in contact with @Florence Lanz about this idea.) -
Would this action be different from renew ? Checking out an already on loan item can be used to trigger a renew.
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Florence Lanz (UBE, SLSP)
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Here you'll find an illustration of the idea.
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