On the Adloan properties tab, which is present when you have selected a new or existing Adloan Circulation application in the Application browser, you determine the global settings for Adloan Circulation. The settings apply to all library branches.

Click here for information on how to edit properties in general. And click here to read about how to manage objects in the tree view in the Application browser. On the current tab you'll find the following settings:

Process fines

Mark this checkbox to turn fines processing on.
Leave this option deselected if your library doesn't fine borrowers for overdue copies.

Use library opening hours table for calculating fines

Mark this checkbox if you want the table with branch opening and closing times to be used in the calculation of fines. This means that for overdue materials no fine will be calculated for the overdue days on which the branch was closed.
Leave this option unmarked if you do not want the closing times to be taken into account, so that fines will be calculated for all overdue days, even if the branch was closed on one or several of those days.

Use library opening hours table for calculating return date and time

Mark this checkbox if you want the table with branch opening and closing times to be used in the calculation of the due date and time. This means that although the return date is calculated by adding the maximum loan period for the relevant borrower category, this date will be moved up to the first following day on which the branch is open, if the initially calculated date happens to be a day on which the library is closed.
Leave this option unmarked if you do not want the closing times to be taken into account. This means that the return date may also be a day on which the branch is closed.

Check copy status of all copies during transactions

Mark this checkbox if you want all copies, reservations and fines for a certain borrower to be checked at every transaction.
Leave this option unmarked if you do not want this check to take place. Without the status check you can work faster and get fewer messages during transactions, but you will get less information too.

Print issue slips

This option is no longer in use in Adloan Circulation for Windows.

Payments per location

This option allows for the possibility to have payment information during issuing, returning and reserving displayed only if that information pertains to the current site, even in the Payments for borrower window. So when the option has been set, loan fees, fines and subscription fees are only visible to co-workers of the location which must collect the payment. The home site of a copy is leading for the loan fees and fines while the site to which the borrower has been registered is leading for the subscription fee. By default, the option is switched off so that all payments remain visible to all sites.

Rounding method

Here, you can determine which rounding method must be applied to hours, when the time at which copies are to be returned needs to be calculated. There are four settings to choose from:

Option

Meaning

Closest

Rounding to the closest hour: 1-29 minutes will be rounded downwards and 30-59 minutes upwards.

Up

Always round upwards.

Down

Always round downwards.

None

Do not round off.

Loan categories

Loan categories indicate material types. Each item which can be issued must be assigned a loan category. Together with the borrower category, the loan category determines what loan limits, reservation limits and fine tables apply.
If a loan category which has not been defined for the branch occurs in a transaction, Adloan Circulation will use the Default loan category for the branch, as specified per library branch. If that doesn't exist either, the standard loan category will be used, as specified under Default values.
Loan categories must be listed here, as well as defined in Adlib Loans Management where each loan category is stored as a Thesaurus record. It is recommended that for this option you list all loan categories which you use in Adlib Loans Management, but there is no principle necessity for a univocal relation: so here you may word your categories differently or just create one normal loan category. Do note that the categories listed here are the only ones presented in the Loan category drop-down list on the Reservations tab in Adloan Circulation.