RE: Hours open and days closed question

[Lesha Fossey <L dot Fossey at exeter dot ac dot uk>]

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>Hello,
>
>I'm learning some aspects of millennium and have just thought of something
>that I don't think I encountered in the manual readings (maybe I missed it?)
>
>If I have an entry in my days closed table, say, 1/1 (for Jan 1, 2005) yet I
>have an entry in my hours open table for 1/1 of 1200 - 1600, which takes
>precedence?  Do they cancel each other out?  What happens?
>
>Any information is greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance,

Well if you have a day set as "closed" because you want no loans to fall due 
that day, but you actually want to be checking out books, then the system gets 
confused that you are checking books out on a "closed" day, and assumes that 
in fact you aren't closed, and checks things out for the normal loan period. 
In order to get round this if you intend to check things out on a "closed" day 
you have to fool the system by setting your hours open as something minimal 
and out of the actual hours you'll be open.

To explain what I mean, here's an example. We want our 5-hour-loans to go out 
from Friday afternoon right through to Monday morning, but we are open for 
checkouts on Saturdays and Sundays. We have had to put Saturdays and Sundays 
as "days closed" so no loans fall due on those days. But we have had to make 
them have an "hours open" setting of 0100 - 0110, to make any checkouts that 
are done due on the Monday morning. If we didn't have this hours open setting 
there, the loans would go out for the 5 hours as defined in the loan rule.

Hope this helps

Lesha