[Koha-bugs] [Bug 35977] New: Display current date in Hold starts on date on opac-reserve

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35977

            Bug ID: 35977
           Summary: Display current date in Hold starts on date on
                    opac-reserve
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Hold requests
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: mirjam.vantieghem at etf.edu
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com

This is related to bug #15652.

If you enable AllowHoldDateInFuture (and its OPAC variant), you get
an additional "Hold starts on date". It is possible to select the current date
from the datepicker in the OPAC. If no date is selected, the default is the
current date.
However, it is not clear to the patron that the current date is selected by
default, as the field is empty if no date has been selected from the
datepicker.
This caused confusion among some of our patrons.
Therefore we use a custom patch to have the current date shown in the field
"Hold starts on date".

What Marcel de Rooy wrote in the related bug, also applies here:
"Although it does not really make any difference if you leave the startdate
empty or put the current date in it, we concluded that it still makes
a psychological difference."

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