Permanent loans best practices
Hi, we'd like to set up the possibility of permanent loans for some borrower types (categories). Our idea is to set the due date to a date far in the future (e.g. 2099), or to 99 years. Is this a good solution, or does Koha provide a better one? Has anybody experiences or ideas to share on this topic? Thanks and best regards Anke -- Anke Bruns M.A. (LIS) Arbeitsgruppe "Anwendungs- und Informationssysteme" E-Mail: anke.bruns@gwdg.de --------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Burckhardtweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 39-30000, URL: https://gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 39-30001, E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 --------------------------------------- Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ---------------------------------------
Hi Anke, we usually use a hard due date far in the future as well. I would not recommend using an incredible long loan period, as this forces Koha to calculate for holidays and can slow things down quite a bit. Also with all issues having the same date, you can easily identify them as permanent loans and if you'd like to, you could replace the date with the text "Permanent loan" in the OPAC using jQuery quite easily. Hope this helps, Katrin On 07.09.22 12:41, Bruns, Anke wrote:
Hi,
we'd like to set up the possibility of permanent loans for some borrower types (categories). Our idea is to set the due date to a date far in the future (e.g. 2099), or to 99 years.
Is this a good solution, or does Koha provide a better one?
Has anybody experiences or ideas to share on this topic?
Thanks and best regards Anke
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