So this implies quite a change for files.
Sorry about conflicts which will be caused.
directory Interface::CGI should now be dropped.
I noticed that many scripts (reports ones, but also some circ/stats.pl or opac-topissues) still use Date::Manip.
- Printer selection for add a new branch, is now working
- the branchname of librarian is not display automaticly if you add a new branch
- the printqueue is now displayed on branches infos page and edit branch page
Rental discount effects the amount a borrower is charge to issue an item
eg, if a borrower category has rental discount of 20 (its a percentage) on itemtypes DVD, and a dvd costs $2 to borrow normally, then it will cos them $1.60
If not set it defaults to zero
Needed by a library.
There will be a new table to go with this plus some changes to the add/modfiy members pages. But the default value for this variable will be 0(no) so most people wont see any changes at all
adding two fields in branches table (branchip,branchprinter)
branchip : if the library enter an ip or ip range any librarian that connect from computer in this ip range will be temporarly affected to the corresponding branch .
branchprinter : the library can select a default printer for a branch
* introducing a category_type into categories. It can be A (adult), C (children), P (Professionnal), I (institution/organisation).
* each category_type has it's own forms to create members.
* the borrowers table has been heavily modified (many fields changed), to get something more logic & readable
* reintroducing guarantor/guanrantee system that is now independant from hardcoded C/A for categories
* updating templates to fit template rules
(see mail feb, 17 on koha-devel "new features for borrowers" for more details)
the system preference prefered date format.
improvement: book fund list and budget list screen redesigned. Filters on
each field. Columns are not sortable yet. Using DHTML Calendar to fill date
fields instead of manual filling. Pagination system. From the book fund
list, you can reach the budget list, filtered on a book fund, or not. A
budget can be added only from book fund list screen.
bug fixed: branchcode was missing in table aqbudget.
bug fixed: when setting a branchcode to a book fund, all associated budgets
move to this branchcode.
modification: when adding/modifying budget/fund, MySQL specific "REPLACE..."
statements replaced by standard SQL compliant statement.
bug fixed: when adding/modifying a budget, if the book fund is associated to
a branch, the branch selection is disabled and set to the book fund branch.
simple links.
improvement: support of itemtype icons on prog template. The icons are
displayed on itemtypes management screen and on moremember screen.
improvement: use of pagination_bar on itemtypes management screen.
new: function were added in C4::Koha to manage itemtype image location
(local/remote). Warning: you must copy or symlink the itemtypeimg directory
from the opac template into the intranet template.
display in the pagination bar was wrong on extreme case (when number of
items equals the pagesize). Calculation replaced by a generic function
getnbpages in C4::Koha. This function could be useful elsewhere than in
stpwords management screen and avoid calculation bugs as I did.
Seems not to break too many things, but i'm probably wrong here.
at least, new features/bugfixes from 2.2.5 are here (tested on some features on my head local copy)
- removing useless directories (koha-html and koha-plucene)
* synch with rel_2_2. Probably the last non manual synch, as rel_2_2 should not be modified deeply.
* code cleaning (cleaning warnings from perl -w) continued
* run updater/updatedatabase to create imageurl field in itemtypes.
* go to Koha >> parameters >> itemtypes >> modify (or add) an itemtype. You will see around 20 nice images to choose between (thanks to owen). If you prefer your own image, you also can type a complete url (http://www.myserver.lib/path/to/my/image.gif)
* go to OPAC, and search something. In the result list, you now have the picture instead of the text itemtype.
* adding a package Letters.pm, that manages Letters & alerts.
* adding feature : it's now possible to define a "letter" for any subscription created. If a letter is defined, users in OPAC can put an alert on the subscription. When an issue is marked "arrived", all users in the alert will recieve a mail (as defined in the "letter"). This last part (= send the mail) is not yet developped. (Should be done this week)
* adding feature : it's now possible to "put to an alert" in OPAC, for any serial subscription. The alert is stored in a new table, called alert. An alert can be put only if the librarian has activated them in subscription (and they activate it just by choosing a "letter" to sent to borrowers on new issues)
* adding feature : librarian can see in borrower detail which alerts they have put, and a user can see in opac-detail which alert they have put too.
Note that the system should be generic enough to manage any type of alert.
I plan to extend it soon to virtual shelves : a borrower will be able to put an alert on a virtual shelf, to be warned when something is changed in the virtual shelf (mail being sent once a day by cron, or manually by the shelf owner. Anyway, a mail won't be sent on every change, users would be spammed by Koha ;-) )
* module (acquisition, catalogue...) : it will be usefull to show the librarian only letters he may be interested by.
* title, that will be used as mail subject.
the letter table contains 3 fields :
* code => the code of the letter
* name => the complete name of the letter
* content => the complete text. It's a TEXT field type, so has no limits.
My next goal now is to work on point 2-I "serial issue alert"
With this feature, in serials, a user can subscribe the "issue alert". For every issue arrived/missing, a mail is sent to all subscribers of this list. The mail warns the user that the issue is arrive or missing. Will be in head.
(see mail on koha-devel, 2005/04/07)
The "serial issue alert" will be the 1st to use this letter system that probably needs some tweaking ;-)
Once it will be stabilised default letters (in any languages) could be added during installer to help the library begin with this new feature.
May be too much... Funds could be enough....
It works provided you update your base adding branchcode both in aqbookfund AND aqbudget.
If selection in budget is not needed, I shall remove.
