Automatically populate date and end time in booking request form
When placing a booking in Alma or Primo you need to choose a starting date then a starting hour followed by a starting minute. You then need to choose an end date then an ending hour and an ending minute. This is a lot of clicks to place one booking.
It would be nice if the end date, hour and time could be automatically populated based on the Terms of use of the item (so if the loan period is 2 hours and the start time is 2:30 then the end time could be automatically populated to say 4:30). If the user wants to book the item for a shorter period of time then they can just adjust the end time to suit how long they want the item for.
This option would likely not suit all sites so it would need to be configurable so it could be turned on or off at the institution level.
Simon Read
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Cindy Bowen
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This functionality is still sorely needed! I cannot vote on it because it's "Planned", but Dana's comment does not address the actual request of automatically populating the end date/time based on a selected start date/time. Adding this capability would be a huge win for my patrons.
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Renaud Arlettaz
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As my colleague Nikol from SLSP underlined it, having this development for Primo VE would be huge plus for its end user experience. Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Renaud -
Nikol Stepan, SLSP
commented
It would be great if this development could also be applied to Primo VE. Users really struggle with the booking functionality. It would therefore be time to improve its usability. Many thanks for taking this into consideration!
Best regards
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Anonymous commented
I have learned that this is now available in Primo, but not Primo VE. When can we expect this enhancement in Primo VE?
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Simon Read
commented
Hi Dana,
Thanks for the update. I've tested the hourly booking functionality and as far as I can see the end date and time does not automatically populate the request form in either Alma or Primo. I can't find specific mention of the auto population in the release notes either - just mention of the ability to change to hourly bookings rather than bookings by minute. How are we meant to activate the functionality?
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Soo Oh
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This feature is a must in order to make self booking usable. Current booking module is not usable by end users. For us, it would be ideal to not give an option to shorten the booking but automatically set it to match Terms of use of the item.
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James Conley
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This is similar to the request we put in a while back but extremely pertinent. If we could auto populate an end time based on a start date even it would be much less confusing to open up self-booking through Primo to our patrons. Even when we outline the total loan periods to our patrons how many of them are going to remember to schedule to the minute the correct loan period on their own?