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Circulating an Item
Once an Reader and Item have been loaded into the circulations dialog, it is possible to circulate the Item to the Reader. In order to do so, select the tabbed panel titled 'Circulation' if not already selected in order to trigger the loading and calculation of the circulation rules. At the same time, the command buttons will reconfigure to reflect the operations possible on the selected tabbed panel.
Circulations Tab Panel
The circulations tabbed panel contains three data entry fields and a single list box. The three fields display the current base date (from which the circulation will be calculated), a calculated duration, and a calculated due date. The rules that were utilised in calculating the duration and due date are listed in the right-hand list box. Any rule that results in a absolute restriction is indicated in bold.
It is possible after calculation of the rules that the circulation will be prevented - this may be caused by either a limitation resulting in too short a loan duration, or because of an absolute restriction.
Overriding a Restriction
In most cases, the internal calculation should be taken as a golden rule and obeyed explicitly - the calculation of the duration should have been created using rules designed to cater for all eventualities within the library. If for whatever reason a circulation must be made by overriding these rules, then individual conditions may 'turned-off' by simply unchecking the checkbox next to the relevant condition.
Overriding the due date
It is also possible to explicity set a due date by entering the date directly into the relevant field. As soon as any of these fields are modified manually however, the list box containg the circulation conditions is locked. This is as a result of the conditions now no longer having any direct relation to the duration or due date. In order to return the circulations panel to normal and allow access to the conditions once again, simply reselect the circulations panel after selecting another.
Once the calculation has been made (which should have been made automatically as soon as the tabbed panel was selected), the circulation can be made by selecting the [Issue] command button at the bottom of the dialog.
