If you want to, you can specify that borrowers’ registrations expire on their birth dates. (For example, you might want the “Juvenile” BTYPE to expire when a student turns fifteen. In this case, when a borrower tries to check out an item after his fifteenth birthday, Horizon prompts you to renew the borrower’s registration. You can then choose to renew the borrower’s registration and assign an “Adult” BTYPE to the borrower.)
You must enter birth dates in your borrower records in order for Horizon to expire a borrower’s registration on the birth date.
In addition, by default, the Birthdate field does not display on a fast-added borrower record. If you fast-add a borrower, and want to expire the registration based on birth date, you will need to display the Edit Borrower window for the borrower and add the birth date of the borrower in the Birthdate field.
To make it easier to expire borrower registrations based on birth dates, even for fast-added borrowers, SirsiDynix recommends that you add the Birthdate field to the Edit New Borrower window as a required field before the BType field. (For more information on adding fields to edit windows, see “Adding a Column to a Search List View or Edit Window” in the “Reconfiguring List and Edit Windows” section of the “Introduction to Horizon Views” chapter of the System Administration Guide.)
When you choose to expire borrowers’ registrations by birth date, this date overrides the number of days entered in the expiration (days) field in the btype view. This date also overrides the specific date that you set up in the btype_expiration_date view. (For more information on the btype_expiration_date view, see Setting Up or Editing a Specific BTYPE Expiration Date.)
To specify a borrower’s registration to expire by birth date
1 | Open the btype view in the Table Editor. |
2 | Choose the BTYPE for which you want to specify an expiration age. |
Horizon displays the Edit Borrower Circulation Types window:
3 | Mark the Use Age for Expire Date box. |
4 | In the Expire Age field, enter the age at which you want a borrower’s registration with this BTYPE to expire. |
5 | Save your changes. |
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