Is there a way to set a global due date in Koha? We are an elementary school using Koha 2.2.9 and we are nearing the end of the year. We usually pick a date that all books will be due back by---can we set that date somewhere and can we set the calendar for dates that we are not in session ie: holidays? Thanks, Marie Marie J. Wardall Library Media Specialist Mountain Bay Elementary School 8602 Schofield Ave. Weston, WI 54476 mwardall@dce.k12.wi.us Phone: 715-355-0302 ext. 5824 Change Today, Change Tomorrow, Keep Changing
Is there a way to set a global due date in Koha?
can we set the calendar for dates that we are not in session ie: holidays?
Not in 2.x. 3.0 has calendar management, although I don't think your global due date feature is available. That's a good idea, though--not something us public libraries would have thought of! My library has been coping with the lack of holidays management by nightly running a script that corrects due dates based on a hard-coded list of our holidays and closings. If there's a closing that will affect Koha's automatically-calculated due date, the script corrects the date in the database to fit our schedule. We just have to remember to set our date-due stampers to the correct date. The same could be done to create a global due date: During the day the system would report an incorrect date for new checkouts, but overnight the database could be updated with the fixed date. Not ideal, but doable. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
Is there a way to set a global due date in Koha?
can we set the calendar for dates that we are not in session ie: holidays?
Not in 2.x. 3.0 has calendar management, although I don't think your global due date feature is available. That's a good idea, though--not something us public libraries would have thought of! Actually, in 3.0 there is a syspref for 'globalDueDate' that will override any dates set in the circ matrix.
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