[Koha-devel] OPAC reserve dates

[Owen Leonard]

>>>For as long as I've been working with Koha the default 
OPAC
>>>theme has had a form for specifying beginning and ending 
dates
>>>for reserves.  I don't think that has ever served any 
purpose.

> Owen, do you mean that beginning or ending dates are never 
used in the
> code?  I recall seeing those variables addressed somewhere, 
but I don't
> remember where (nor in what version).

What I know is that there is nowhere in the reserves table for 
these values.  That tells me the form is useless.  I just wish 
I knew why it was put there in the first place!

> It seems to me that these dates would be useful.  If I want 
to reserve a
> book but am going on vacation for three weeks and don't want 
to get the
> book until I get back, then the beginning date for the 
reserve is useful. 
> On the other hand, if I need the book for a class and don't 
want to get it
> after the class is over, then an ending date is also 
useful.

I agree absolutely, and I even filed a bug about this the last 
time I got worked up about this issue:

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=607

...But that's an enhancement bug, and we all know what happens 
to those ;)

 -- Owen