Limit Bookings Across Rooms Within a Time Period
Several libraries in our consortium have multiple study rooms. They want to limit patrons to a single 'study room' booking across all of their study rooms for a given time period (e.g. Jane Doe can only book a single study room each day, but the next day she can book a room again, etc.).
Currently, they can limit bookings for an individual room, but the patron can just sign up for another room later that day (and go through them all in turn). I guess staff can monitor and delete duplicate bookings, and dedicated patrons will undoubtedly find other workarounds.
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AdminKatie LeBlanc (Admin, Innovative) commented
This would need to be implemented before we would consider switching to Program
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Allison Sartwell commented
I would love to migrate to Program, but this is a must-have before we could seriously consider it.
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Steve Saunders commented
Room groups / types is what our current solution uses. When considering migrating to Program in the future, we'd need some type of solution like this.
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Jonathan commented
One solution might be to define "room groups" so that patrons could only book from "group 1" x times in a given time period, but could *also* book a different type of room (e.g. meeting room) during that same period—instead of being confined to booking a single room overall.