## Loans

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Translations

This page is to manage loans of school books to students at the begin of the school year.

## "Loans"

The loans page features three operations:

1. view the list of school books currently lent to a student,
2. add school books to lend them,
3. print a loan sheet, which the student must sign.

Here is the user manual:

1. type three letters or more of the name or surname of the student: a drop-down list appears, where one can select the complete student's name; as soon as the student's name is selected, the list of books currently lent appear, and the focus goes to the input field for the book's number; then, one can type the book's number or flash its bar-code with the bar-code reader.
2. each time a book's number is entered, it is added to the list of new books to be lent, eventually after a confirmation request (for example, if one wants to lend two books with the same title to the same student).
3. when the list of new books to be lent is correct, one click on the save button, in order to add the books in the list of "registered loans". After that, one can still add new books as in stage 2, but it is no longer possible to remove books from the list.
4. finally, one clicks on the print button to create the printable loans sheet. That one is downloaded in PDF format. When the browser is well configured, one can read it and send it to the printer.

During step #2, one can still cancel lending a school book, as long as the list of books to be lent has not been validated.

The loans sheet is made on the basis of books already lent; so one must first validate the list of new books to lend, before asking for the loans sheet.

## "Amendments"

One can print an amendment when some new loans are added, and an older loans sheet had been signed.

When new books to be lent are added at another, later date, the program detects the case and gives the opportunity to print an amendment on the back of an already signed loans sheet.

The screenshot above displays two new buttons to print documents, and the help sentence for the upper button: "Add an amendment for 1 book(s)". The upper button is to print the amendment in the top of page, the second button can be used if an first amendment is already printed in the top of the page; in such a case the amendment would be printed in the bottom of the page.

## "Same class"

In the right part of the web page, there is a list of students from the same class. This list provides a few features:

- each student's names in the list is a link to lend (or return) books of this student
- a list of "previous classes" where the students had been subscribed is mentioned.

In the context of loans, there are action buttons to print a membership card, and to go directly to a book return.