Kay,
How is a week determined? Is it Sunday Saturday, or Monday to Sunday? I
think that¹s the only thing that¹s not quite clear.
Ryan
On 3/2/10 8:56, "Kay Chau" <kc...@grameenfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> We are updating the business logic in Mifos around changing center meeting
> dates. The existing logic is not consistent so we are implementing a
> consistent way to update these dates.
>
> Now, when changing a center meeting date in the current installment ³period²,
> the change will always be applied in the next installment ³period², where a
> period is the frequency of your meeting schedule and the repayment falls in.
>
> For example, if you have a weekly meeting on Wednesdays currently, and you
> change the meeting date to Thursday, the current working week will still keep
> the original repayment days of Wednesday. Your meeting date will be changed
> next working week to Thursday. This is regardless of whether or not a
> repayment has past this week. In my example today (March 1st), this week¹s
> meeting will still occur on March 3rd, but next week¹s repayment will now be
> on March 10th.
>
> The same applies for monthly meetings. In this example, you normally have a
> meeting date on the 20th of every month, and you change the meeting date to
> the 5th of every month. In the current month (March), your meeting date will
> still fall on March 20th. However, in April, the following month, the meeting
> date will be on April 5th.
>
> Also, this mirrors what happens in Mifos right now, but as always, changing
> the center meeting date does not take effect until batch jobs are run. This
> means that if your batch jobs are scheduled to run at midnight (by default),
> the determination of what current installment period you are in happens after
> midnight. For example, if you make a change in the Mifos UI on Feb 28th, the
> change doesn¹t actually happen until March 1st. This means if you have a
> monthly meeting, and you decide to change the meeting dates to fall on the 1st
> of every month, the change will take effect in April.
>
> We will update the FS with this information. Let us know if there are any
> thoughts or questions around this.
>
> Kay
>
>
>
>
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