[v3.4] Renew button issues #916
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From BMEC:
What’s going on with the Renew button that’s on the information page of individual reservations? I just noticed it earlier this morning when I was looking at a specific reservation, and it’s on both the live BMEC and testing servers. It doesn’t change anything as far as Kathy and I can tell – once you press it (as either admin or patron), it says the reservation has been renewed. We foresee a lot of patron complaints/complications if they see the button and think that they can renew their checked out equipment. We already get a lot of questions/requests for automatic renewal of equipment, so unless we’re changing how “renewals” happen with Bass Media (essentially the patron brings in the equipment to check in and if it’s still available, make a new reservation and then check it back out), I personally don’t see the use for that button right now, especially for the public to see. Perhaps Kathy or Bass Media feel differently? I at least wanted it to get addressed in time for September 1st rollout.
Let's investigate this behavior and make sure we fix it before the release of v3.4.3. As always, we will have to merge these changes into master as well.
Info from #917
BMEC has requested that the renew reservation button be removed from the patron view of reservations since they don't really use that functionality and, as it stands, that button does nothing (since I think the default max renewal period is zero days). We should do two things:
- add an option to the application configs to allow or deny patrons from renewing reservations (thus hiding the button)
- make sure that the renew button doesn't appear if the max renewal length is zero
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