https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23531 --- Comment #5 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de> --- (In reply to Arthur Suzuki from comment #4)
needed_before_date is actually stored in the "reservedate", this is just a way to place a reserve on a future date. pickup_expiry_date is the date after which the reserve is automatically cancelled if not picked up by the user and this one is stored in the "expirydate"
Maybe the parameter "needed_before_date" shall be renamed another way.
The use case is for example for teachers/students who need to reserve a book for a course, they need it between "needed_before_date" and "pickup_expiry_date". There is no way to provide either date from ILS-DI right now, but we have this need for bundled holds (for which Cecile showed the bundled loans counterpart at the Hackfest in Marseille).
I think I would make it something like 'expiry_date' (doesn't matter if it has been waiting for pickup or not) and something like 'not_needed_before' or even 'start_date' to clear things up a bit. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.