It'd be helpful if certain fees could be automatically applied on a per date or term basis. That is if there was an extra rule or condition that could be applied to a certain fee that would only trigger for one of the terms each year or a certain date range for each year.
Hopefully our present circumstance serves as an example.
Our student fees are separated into four sections:
part-time fall semester fees
full-time fall semester fees
part-time winter semester fees
full-time winter semester fees
This is separate from the regular tuition fees that the students are charged on a per credit basis.
If a student takes less than 9 credit hours they are charged a part-time student fee. So if a student takes 5 credit hours in the fall semester they would be charged:
5 x $tuition fee
+ fall semester part-time student fees
If a student takes 9 credit hours or more they are charged a full-time student fee. If they take classes in the winter semester the student fees are slightly different. So we have a fall student fees and a winter student fees.
We currently have the part-time and full-time student fees working fine, the rule was implemented that checks how many credit hours they are taking that semester. However, we were trying to find a way to have Populi automatically detect that it is the winter semester and the students should be charged the winter student fees and not the fall student fees.