[Koha-patches] [PATCH] [bug #2770][3.2] change the date calc, to set the date_due to date_due+loanlength.

[Nahuel ANGELINETTI]

Hi,

Le Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:05:20 -0700,
Michael Hafen <mdhafen at tech.washk12.org> a écrit :

> My librarians in the past have had discussions over this feature in
> the past.  The consensus here was that predictability is better.
> With the new due date calculated from the old due date it is not
> predictable. The librarian has no idea before hand what date to stamp
> on the checkout slip that goes in the book.  With the due date
> calculated from today the librarian can be fairly certain before hand
> what the new due date will be, and have the stamp ready for that date.

As I think, and our librarians need, there is some arguments that
demonstrate this patch is usefull :)

Firstly, when you check in a document later than issue date, and the
user want to renew his loan, the new issue date must be calculated from
the last issue date, and not today, else a user can win some days in
its loan.
Then, If a user tell the librarian to make the renew "NOW" (at the
moment he is checking out the document), because he know he need more
thank loan period to read/use it, add the "renew period" to the issue
date is logical. For the moment, if you renew the same day you checked
out, the issue date doesn't change, but the renewals is incremented.
Finally, when you make a renew of a document, the issue date is
always shown, so how this cannot be predictable?

It's just my point of view, and how our librarians exposed to us.

bests,

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Nahuel ANGELINETTI