* 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.
Needs Two Update in database...
On more table (action_logs)
And One more syspref Activate_Log, with On|Off values.
Maintainance has been sweeped of previous Log functions
addbiblio.pl contains a sample of code using Log.pm
To be generalized to Authorities, acquisitions, members soon.
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.
This field is useful when the callnumber contains no information on the room where the item is stored.
With this field, we now have 3 levels of informations to find a book :
* the branch.
* the location.
* the callnumber.
This should be versatile enough to solve any storing method.
This hack is quite simple, due to the nice Biblio.pm API. The MARC => koha db link is automatically managed. Just add the link in the parameters section.
* acquisition rewritte : create a aqbasket table to deal with "bookseller order header".
* add "close basket" feature : a closed basket can't be modified
* suggestion feature : manage suggestions in acquisition (after suggestion filled in OPAC)
WARNING : will work only if applied to a 2.0 base. some modifs have been done since last commit that will NOT be applied if you run updatedatabase again.
Before this fix :
* was harcoded to 12,5%
* some bugs in template parameters prevented the javascript to work.
* some bugs prevented some calculations to be done properly.
z3950 search and import seems to works fine.
Let me explain how :
* a "search z3950" button is added in the addbiblio template.
* when clicked, a popup appears and z3950/search.pl is called
* z3950/search.pl calls addz3950search in the DB
* the z3950 daemon retrieve the records and stores them in z3950results AND in marc_breeding table.
* as long as there as searches pending, the popup auto refresh every 2 seconds, and says how many searches are pending.
* when the user clicks on a z3950 result => the parent popup is called with the requested biblio, and auto-filled
Note :
* character encoding support : (It's a nightmare...) In the z3950servers table, a "encoding" column has been added. You can put "UNIMARC" or "USMARC" in this column. Depending on this, the char_decode in C4::Biblio.pm replaces marc-char-encode by an iso 8859-1 encoding. Note that in the breeding import this value has been added too, for a better support.
* the marc_breeding and z3950* tables have been modified : they have an encoding column and the random z3950 number is stored too for convenience => it's the key I use to list only requested biblios in the popup.
* adding a syntax column in z3950 table = this column will say wether the z3950 must be called with PerferedRecordsyntax => USMARC or PerferedRecordsyntax => UNIMARC. I tried some french UNIMARC z3950 servers, and some only send USMARC, some only UNIMARC, some can answer with both.
Note this is a 1st draft. More to follow (today ? I hope).
* many bugfixes
* adding value_builder : you can map a subfield in the marc_subfield_structure to a sub stored in "value_builder" directory. In this directory you can create screen used to build values with any method. In this commit is a 1st draft of the builder for 100$a unimarc french subfield, which is composed of 35 digits, with 12 differents values (only the 4th first are provided for instance)
* bugfixes and improvements
* manage mandatory MARC subfields
* new table : authorised_values. this table contains categories and authorised values for the category. On MARC management, you can map a subfield to a authorised_values category. If you do this, the subfield can only be filled with a authorised_value of the selected category.
this submit contains everything needed :
* updatedatabase
* admin screens
* "links" management
* creation of a html-list if a subfield is mapped to an authorised value.
Note this is different from authorities support, which will come soon.
The authorised_values is supposed to contains a "small" number of authorised values for a category (less than 50-100). If you enter more authorised values than this, it should be hard to find what you want in a BIG list...
It creates a thesaurus table and fills it with data in bibliosubject. Thesaurus
contains 2 columns : freelib and stdlib. This permits connecting differents forms for a word/sentence (HUGO may be mapped to V. Hugo, Victor Hugo...)
In modbib.pl, you will see "..." near subject. If you click on this ..., a popup appear. It has 4 parts : the Subject field, a search field with Search button. If you enter a value here and click Search, a list of thesaurus entries starting by what you enter appear.
If you select a value and click "OK", the value is added to the subject list.
When you've finished, click END. the window is closed, and the value copied to main subject window.
Make heavy use of javascript. TESTED UNDER MOZILLA 0.99. Please test under IE.
Administration of thesaurus table will come soon (with html::template) ...
branchtransfers table
Circ2.pm has been changed a little
admin/branches.pl alows branches to be added, edited and deleted.
updatedatabase needs more fixing
changes the type of the datesent and datearrived fields in the
branchtransfers table from date to datetime.
completely re-organises the branchcategories table. As this has previously
been unused it shouldnt effect anyone.
adding, modifying or removing any fields from existing tables.
This is in very early stages. Need to go through and ascertain which
tables and fields need to be added/modified. Also need to add a "backup"
before any modifications are made. Thoughts on this are welcome.
