[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] common due date for all items

[Gordana Vitez]

Thanks to Dan and Thomas for the info. Looking forward to seeing these options implemented in future releases!
 
Gordana

>>> Thomas Berezansky <tsbere at mvlc.org> 08/12/2010 2:16 pm >>>
Last I looked at the hard due date functionality (and participated in  
writing some of it, for that matter) there were two modes, a limit and  
a force set.

The limit would shorten the duration if it would pass that date, the  
force set would say "regardless, use this date". In the event the date  
was in the past it would fallback to the normal duration rules.

This is still, however, tied to circulation policies, though a simple  
SQL command could apply it to every circulation policy in the system.

I do not know what (released) evergreen versions support this at this time.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>:

> Hi Gordana:
>
> On 8 December 2010 13:55, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> We're an academic library on Evergreen and we would like one due  
>> date for our materials for over the Christmas holidays. We would  
>> like to be able to set a due date of Jan 10, 2011 going forward  
>> that would override all circ policies.
>>
>> Is this possible? And if so, could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> I'm not sure if that particular scenario is part of the "hard due
> date" funded enhancement:
> http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/11/coding-has-been-completed.html -
> might be worth looking into.
>
> As a short-term measure, you could have a SQL UPDATE statement run
> every 10 minutes that sets all due dates for items with a check-out
> time greater than Dec. 7, 2010 (or whatever) to Jan. 10, 2011.
>
> Dan
>


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