[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 #7 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
I am trying Andrew, but I am not sure either :) I'll try with some examples
too:

1) Library without auto-renewals and without norenewalbefore limit
- RenewalPeriodBase is set to 'date_due'
- renewals allowed > 0
- norenewalbefore  is not set

Patrons would be allowed to renew immediately after checkout to a much longer
loan period than intended. This will take away the chance for other users to
get the items earlier by placing a hold.

2) Library without auto-renewals
- RenewalPeriodBase is set to 'date_due'
- renewals allowed > 0
- norenewalbefore is set to x days before

Patrons and staff can only renew once the items get close to the due date.
Note: if the 'override' renewal doesn't work here yet, it could be nice to have
a way to do that for staff.

3) Library with auto-renewals and without norenewalbefore limit
- RenewalPeriodBase is set to 'date_due'
- renewals allowed > 0
- norenewalbefore  is not set

This used to mean: That the system would "game" itself. The items would be
renewed immediately the first day after checkout. 
So norenewalbefore determined the first day it should try to renew. 

The idea here was to try the auto-renew a few days before the actual date due,
so in case of it failing, the patron would receive the item due notice and have
a change to return the item on time before accumulating fines.

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After the initial introduction of these features a lot more options were added
to the auto-renew process. The separate notice was added and Bug 19014 was
pushed - I am not sure how that might have changed things. :( It's something
you might have a better idea about.

So my initial comments were referring to the fact, that maybe we would want to
have different settings for manual vs. automatic renewals. I am not stuck to
this idea.

I believe the use case described by Martin is a bit difficult... if the
intention of using auto renewals and holds (instead of just having looong loan
periods) is that holds should have the effect of people having to return items,
renewing "early" seems like going against that? I feel a bit like you can't
have both, but I might lack imagination right now :)

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