[Koha-bugs] [Bug 22018] Add an option to 'AllowEarlyRenewal' to enable users to renew before the autorenew date

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22018

--- Comment #6 from Andrew Isherwood <andrew.isherwood at ptfs-europe.com> ---
I've been doing some more thinking about this and I'm not understanding the
relevance of norenewalbefore, as mentioned by Katrin.

It seems that the requirement is to allow manual renewals when autorenewals are
enabled. True, norenewalbefore could prevent the user manually renewing, but so
could a number of other factors, it seems like those are outside of the scope
of this bug.

I have also come up with an example scenario where allowing manual renewals
would prevent the user incurring a huge fine (excuse the UK format dates):

28 day loan period - Current situation
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- Item loaned 01/01 - due 29/01
- norenewalbefore set to 7 days, so cannot renew before 22/01
- Patron going away 18/01 - 18/02
- Hold is placed on 19/01 so autorenewal on 29/01 doesn't happen
- Patron incurs fines from 30/01 -> 19/02, when they return the item

Following development
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- Patron renews item on 17/01 just before they go away, new due date 14/02
- Hold is placed on 19/01 so autorenewal on 14/02 doesn't happen
- Patron incurs fines from 15/02 -> 19/02, when they return the item

Katrin, could you elaborate on why you brought up norenewalbefore? I don't want
to miss some subtlety before I begin work on this :-)

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