Hi all,
How Koha handles free days, especially national holidays in the middle
of a week? Is there a list where I can write down all dates when my
library is closed, so the system will not allow to set return date to
any day from the list, but instead set it to the first "open" day
after
the "closed" one? I guess I could change the return date manually, but
it`s rather bad idea when there are up to 300 patrons and up to 1500
transactions per day... Any suggestions?
Regards,
Tomasz.
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Hi Tomaz,
Tumer Garip (and friends ;) wrote the original holidays code for koha-3.0.
But I have been doing some recent work back-porting it to dev_week, and rel-2.2.
So hopefully i can answer some of your questions...
There are basically 4 different ways that Koha handles due-dates that fall on a holiday,
these a set by a syspref called 'useDaysMode'
The most common (i think) holidays mode is 'DateDue', this mode does exactly what you described above.
You can define a national holiday as an 'anually repeating' holiday
Heres paste from the sys-pref description.
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useDaysMode -
"How to calculate return dates : 'Calendar' means that loan-length is increased by ALL holidays occuring between issuing date and due-date, 'Datedue' means that due-date will be increased until next non-calendar day, 'Days' means that holidays rules are ignored"
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We are still currently testing it on the 'devweek' branch wth the NPL templates, and we'll hopefully get some of the newer changes over to rel-2.2 in the next few weeks
FYI: it looks like Antoine has got holidays currently included with the latest 2.2 release, using the 'default' templates.
Hope that helps you :)
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