[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

Andrew Isherwood <andrew.isherwood at ptfs-europe.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Andrew Isherwood <andrew.isherwood at ptfs-europe.com> ---
Hi Katrin

Thanks for your thoughts, very useful, it's interesting to have some of the
historical context.

> ... 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 ...

I think the idea is that it gives the ability for the patron to not have to
return an item due to a hold when they are physically unable to do so due to
being away.

A (probably) naïve approach would be just for us to add a syspref that, if
enabled, ignores the "norenewalbefore" restriction checks in
C4::CanBookBeRenewed. I notice that in Bug 25758 Nick has added flag that is
passed to C4::CanBookBeRenewed indicating if it is being called from the
autorenew cron script, so that would negate the need for us to split
norenewalbefore into two.

However, despite the approach that is taken, I am still unable to see how we
can allow patrons to renew items early without re-introducing the ability for
them to artificially increase their loan periods when RenewalPeriodBase is set
to date_due.

Needs more thought I think!

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