Loan administration

Loans can be administered via the right-click menu on pressing "Loan Administration" or via the "Loan" tab of the item form. A history of loans is maintained. You can get an overview of your loans by using the "Loan Information" utility from the "Administration" menu. The contact person form also contains a separate tab showing his lend items.

Persons

For the loan administration to work, you need to register contacts in the contacts module. The registration of contacts works just the same as the registration of items in the other modules

Lending an item

Specify the person to which the item will be lend and specify the date on which the loan starts. If the loan start date is today (or in the past) the item will be marked as unavailable. The item cannot be lend to anyone else until the item has been returned. Note that there are 3 fields available which tell you more about the loan status, "Available", "Loaned By" and "Days Loaned". These can be added by using the "field settings" more about this

Returning an item

Items borrowed by a person can be registered as "returned". Press "Return Item". By default the item's return date is today. You can enter a different date in the "end date" field before pressing the "Return Item" button.

Filtering

As stated before there are three fields available which tell something about the loan status, "Available", "Loaned By" and "Days Loaned". These fields can be used to create a filter (more about this). Using filters you can easily keep track on your loans.