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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:03:22 EST
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- From: Lydia Pettis <LRP@CORNELLC.BITNET>
- Subject: NOTIS 5.1 calendar warnings!
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- We have encountered a couple of calendar related problems with our
- installation of 5.1 that I would like to share with others...these
- might be common mistakes that would be nice to avoid!
-
- A couple of days ago I think I sent a note out about AICA abends we
- were receiving when trying to charge books to specific pseudo-patrons.
- After some investigation we determined that both of the affected
- patron categories had loan periods of 1 year. During my morning Diet
- Coke meditation it occurred to me that we entered calendars through
- the end of the 1993 calendar year...and since Cornell closes completely
- between Xmas and New Years, the last active calendar period for the
- libraries indicated CLOSED...so when the system tried to establish a
- year loan period it couldn't find an open day to make the book due on,
- thus the AICA abend. This was never a problem in our 4.6 system, because
- we listed all holidays as exception dates within periods. The 5.x
- system, with it's limited exception dates, forced us to create, for the
- first time, calendar periods that have no open days. Always be sure
- to follow such a period with one which indicates open hours!
-
- Also, in case anybody finds the CUTOFF time logic as confusing as I do,
- remember that if an minute/hourly loan item is due AFTER the cutoff time
- it will be made due the following day. It is easy for people to interpret
- this time as 'if the item is CHARGED after this time it is due the
- following day', and that is WRONG!!! Make sure you have that straight
- BEFORE entering the calendars!
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