Re: [IUG] Does changing time to pickup require a new loan rule?

[Glenn Hayslett <ghayslet at email dot unc dot edu>]

Phil,

We recently changed our time to pickup in loan rules, with no problems.

Phil Shirley wrote:
> I know that in general you should make new loan rules rather than 
> copying existing loan rules, and I've done this several times.  Does 
> anyone know if it's necessary to do this when you change the "time to 
> pickup"?
>
> The only bad effect I can think of would be that maybe things already on 
> the hold shelf would have their "hold until" date changed, which would 
> be bad if the new date was sooner than we had told the patron.  Does 
> anyone know if this would happen, or if anything else bad might be 
> caused by such a change?
>
> The reason I want to change the "time to pickup" is, I understand that 
> Teleforms will combine hold pickup notices into one call even if they 
> have different hold-until dates, with the result that it might give the 
> patron a hold-until date that does not apply to all items in the call. 
> We're going to be implementing Teleforms soon, and currently we have 
> different times to pickup for different kinds of things, so we want to 
> make them all the same so Teleforms will always give the right pickup date.
>
> Phil
>   

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