[Koha] How to handle a temporarily closed branch?

[BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER]

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:37:54 +0200
From: Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no>
To: Koha list <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: [Koha] How to handle a temporarily closed branch?
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Hi!

Oslo Public Library needs to close some of its branches every now and
then. How are y'all handling that in Koha?

...

Anyone got any thoughts on this? Better ways to do it? Angles we are missing?


Magnus,
	Currently, what we do for our schools during the summer is...

1) Hide the schools from being chosen as pickup locations.  Here is an example of our jQuery for a single branch:

Staff jQuery:
$("#pickup option[value='SILVERHILL'],select[name='pickup'] option[value='SILVERHILL']").hide();

OPAC jQuery:
$("option[value='SILVERHILL']").hide();

2) Update the holds policies under the circulations rules for that library to No Holds Allowed for each type you use.

This works pretty well, except that currently Next Available Holds are not honoring this rule.  I've reported this in a bug.

Christopher Brannon