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Our loan policy form has a field called "Loan Profile" and the options there are fixed, rolling and indefinite. I asked the RA SIG what should happen to the due date if the loan policy associated with the loan was indefinite and they said:
- None of them are currently using "indefinite" loans. It seems many tried and abandoned these types of loans because they were difficult to manage (I don't have the details on why)
- Still, some have used this in the past and think libraries still do. ILSes do generally offer this option.
- So, we have some options:
- Have the due date for indefinite loans be null - This could be complicating down the road. We may have to constantly be figuring out how to handle this case when doing things like calculating fees/fines etc.
- Set the due date for something like 100 years in the future. I think this simplifies things from a dev, requirements and testing perspective. Apparently this is how some systems have done this. Still, they have some logic in the UI so they display "indefinte" instead of the due date way out in the future.
- Get rid of the indefinite option for now and deal with it later if it becomes a priority.
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