[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?

[Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich]

This is just a guess, but try the ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD.

Alexey Lazar
PALS
Information System Developer and Integrator
507-389-2907
http://www.mnpals.org/

On Apr 23, 2012, at 13:45 , Nancy Grant wrote:

> 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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>>   1. Re: Global due date? (Gordana Vitez)
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>> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:53:26 -0400
>> From: "Gordana Vitez" <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?
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>> Hi there,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Gordana
>> 
>> Gordana Vitez
>> Library Services & Systems Coordinator
>> NC Libraries and Learning Commons
>> Niagara College
>> 300 Woodlawn Rd
>> Welland Ontario
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>> gvitez at niagaracollege.ca
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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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