[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about Bookbags and Server Space

[Sharp, Chris]

> I suspect Action/Trigger is still enough of a mystery to most people
> that a blog post on how to make a custom rule like this work in
> practice would be quite valuable. </beg></plead>

+1 :-)

Chris Sharp
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Georgia Public Library Service
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csharp at georgialibraries.org
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Scott" <dan at coffeecode.net>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 12:41:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about Bookbags and Server Space

> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:25 -0400, Mike Rylander wrote:
> 
> > >  Can
> > > bookbags expire after a certain length of time based on type of
> > > patron (staff bookbags last forever where as patron bookbags
> > > expire after so many
> > > months)?
> > >
> >
> > They can not today. However, one could use the Action/Trigger
> > infrastructure (with no core changes, just local code) to make this
> > happen.
> >
> 
> Hmm, interesting approach! It wouldn't be my default approach to
> tackling the problem due to my continuing lack of familiarity/comfort
> with A/T, but I can see how having the event definition listed and the
> parameters editable through the staff client would be preferable to
> cronned SQL script hiding away in the depths of a server somewhere.
> 
> I suspect Action/Trigger is still enough of a mystery to most people
> that a blog post on how to make a custom rule like this work in
> practice would be quite valuable. </beg></plead>