Koha Question of the Week: How Do I End a Weekly Closure on the Calendar?

by Hebah Amin-Headley on Dec 15, 2023

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Question: How Do I End a Weekly Closure on the Calendar?

Answer: Libraries that are always closed on a day of the week, like Sundays, will typically have a weekly repeating holiday on their calendar. Depending on system settings, this exists to ensure that items don't come due on a day patrons can't bring an item into the library to return it, or that patrons don't lose a day to pick up holds, or even potentially that a library won't charge an overdue fine for days not open.

If a library has traditionally been closed on Sundays but will be opening up, this can be updated from the staff interface. Here's an example calendar, with Sunday closures and the usual winter closures.

The recurring weekly holiday, Sunday closures, appear in the bright yellow. Clicking on one of the days brings up some options for deletion/modification.

A natural first instinct would be to simply add an end date to the closure and save it.

This does not work, part of a known bug in Koha.

The only way to end that recurring closure is to select 'Delete the repeated holidays on a range.' This deletes the entire sequence of closures, so it should only be done within the week before new weekend hours go into effect. So if a library will start having Sunday hours in 2024, the sequence can be deleted in the week of December 29, 2023, after the closure on December 28 to ensure any circulation functions tied to the calendar are not affected.

Additional Resources

Koha Calendar Features