This setting allows library staff to set a specific due date in hold slips. Whatever is written here can be printed on a hold slip by using a placeholder SYSTEM:HOLDDATE in ReceiptDefinition file.

An item is recognized as hold-item based on sorting rules. Sorting rules are created and maintained with a separate tool, Sorting editor. In the sorting rules, any information available from the SIP check in response can be used to determine the hold status of an item, for example a piece of text in a message field (AF).