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.
Jonathan
shared this idea
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Kasey Blankenship
commented
Can't echo the other comments enough that this is a needed feature. I wasn't aware we wouldn't have this option when we started our migration, and it has definitely created problems that we are trying to solve before getting this into the public's hands.
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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.