[Koha] Problem with new functionnality Hard Due Dates

[Mason James]

On 2012-01-24, at 9:46 AM, Laquerre, Anthony wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I would like to share our experience with 3.6 regarding this new functionality of Hard Due Date: 
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5548
> Please let me know if I need to put this comment elsewhere..
>  
> I would like to see with you what kind of workaround I can use :-)
>  
> Basically, globalduedate and ceilingduedate has been removed and automatically fill the circ. rule instead.
> Look's great at first but, our libraries are all "school type" and we were modifying  the ceilingdue at least 3 times each year.
> We we putting the "End of session" as the max return date.
> You also need to know that most of the libraries have a lot for circ. rule.  ( From 50 to up to 200 ).
>  
> In the current state, we need to ask our librarians to manually update all the rules each time they want to specify a new ceiling due date.
> We can't only modify circ. rule so we need to redo them from scratch...
> So you can now see that this new feature is a big regression for us.
> Maybe not a regression, but error prone / time consuming problem.
>  
> Is there any way to batch update an entire set of circ. rule to a new Hard due date ?
> Any other idea you can share to help us ?


one line of SQL would probably work here, as a quicky?

try experimenting with SQL on your test Koha system

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