[Koha-bugs] [Bug 27444] New: Allow reports to use the calendar to count open/closed days based on the calendar

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27444

            Bug ID: 27444
           Summary: Allow reports to use the calendar to count open/closed
                    days based on the calendar
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Reports
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: andrew at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

When writing reports related to fines or overdue notices, one runs into
difficulties based on how Koha holidays are stored. There's no good way for SQL
to calculate out how many days within a given span were open days. So if you're
using the calendar to calculate when to send overdue notices at 10 open days
past the due date, there's no way to get SQL to tell you which items should
have gotten an overdue notice today.

This becomes more of an issue as we use the patron emailer more, since the
patron emailer relies upon a report. If one wanted to use the patron emailer to
send a fourth overdue notice, one would not be able to calculate when to send
that notice using the Koha calendar.

I'm not sure what the solution is here. Maybe some syntax one could use in a
report to ask Koha to generate a value? So you could say something like:

WHERE timestampdiff(days,date_due,curdate()) = <<opendays:date_due,curdate()>>
?

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