[Koha] Setting a global due date

[Owen Leonard]

> 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

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