[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hours for Org units

[Mike Rylander]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Faiz Ishaq <Faiz at szabist.ac.ae> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Perhaps a more general approach would be to add a 'Next day' checkbox to
> the closing time entry. Another possibility is to ask for 'next day' if
> the entered closing time is earlier than the opening time.

This would work.  I also thought of another mechanism last night:
instead of a close time, gather an open time and an open interval.
Frances' hours of operation would "open be 8am, open for 17 hours."
Changing all uses of the close fields so that the calendar time is
calculated in one addition would be simpler than testing for a
separate flag and adding a day, I think.

--miker

>
> Cheers, Faiz Ishaq
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mike Rylander" <mrylander at gmail.com>
> To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" <open-ils-
> dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:26:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hours for Org units
>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Frances Dean McNamara
>> <fdmcnama at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> > I am setting up some test Circulation for our installation.  I want
>> to set
>> > up some hours for our Libraries.
>> >
>> > During the regular school year the libraries are open from 8 AM to 1
>> AM the
>> > next day.  Will that be a problem for Evergreen?
>> >
>> > During the summer we close earlier but when I went to set up one set
>> of
>> > hours, it made me wonder if the 1 AM closing will be an issue.
>> >
>>
>> This won't work today.  The first thought that came to mind was to be
>> able to supply a "hours after midnight" offset to be applied when the
>> closing time is 00:00.  This would touch a few deep places, though,
>> and would require a significant effort to make sure everything works
>> as expected (though it would likely be a relatively small change to
>> the code).
>>
>> Suggestions for alternate approaches would be appreciated! :)
>>
>> --
>> Mike Rylander
>>  | VP, Research and Design
>>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
>>  | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>>  | email: miker at esilibrary.com
>>  | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
>
>



-- 
Mike Rylander
 | VP, Research and Design
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
 | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email: miker at esilibrary.com
 | web: http://www.esilibrary.com