[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?

[Nancy Grant]

Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local
admin. But "stop at May 27, 2012" did not work, nor did the several
variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or
without the "stop at..." words.

Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students?

Thanks


On 4/23/12, open-ils-general-request at list.georgialibraries.org
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> From: "Gordana Vitez" <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>
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> Hi there,
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> We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an academic
> library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any more info.
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> Thanks!
> Gordana
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> Gordana Vitez
> Library Services & Systems Coordinator
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>>>> On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message
>>>> <20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i7ks at mail.mvlc.org>, Thomas Berezansky
>>>> <tsbere at mvlc.org> wrote:
> I think what you want is the "Hard Due Date" feature, which can be set
> by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much
> anything else in the circ rules.
>
> It supports "stop at date X" and "always use date X" (but only when
> date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations).
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Nancy Grant <nbgrant at msad41.us>:
>
>> Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year returns
>> .
>> REASONS:
>> 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for the
>> summer.
>> 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows that
>> class
>> to be billed before they can march in the ceremony.
>> 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing  during the year and needs
>> replacement on summer order.
>> 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date.
>> 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all patrons or
>> for just students and not teachers.
>>
>> Is a global due date possible?
>>
>> Nancy B. Grant
>> LMS, NBCT
>> Penquis Valley Schools
>> Milo, ME 04463
>>
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