Patch to remove issuingrules.pl in favor of
using smart-rules.pl to manage loan and fine
rules. Several reasons for this:
* issuingrules.pl's matrix could grow rather large
if the library has a large number of item types
and patron categories
* successfully entering rules via issuingrules.pl
requires placing commas within input fields
* a sparse circulation policy matrix takes the
same amount of screen space as one that uses
rules for a lot of specific patron category/item type
combinations.
* having two administrative interfaces to the same
policy settings could be confusing.
* UI design of smart-rules.pl better lends itself
to adding more policy setting attributes to the
rules matrix.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Removed the separate admin/finesrules.pl script
to set the fines policy matrix: since admin/finesrules.pl
and admin/issuingrules.pl both touch issuingrules.pl, creating
a specific fine rule could silently override a default issuing
rule and prevent items from being checked out.
Circulation policy matrix settings for fines are now
handled in admin/smart-rules.pl
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
* Added ability to specify total loans allowed at a library
for the default patron category. If set, the default
limit is applied if no rule for the specific library
and patron category is set.
* Added ability to specify default total loans allowed
for the default library; this is applied if no rule
for the specify library is set.
* Form now indicates if the number of current checkouts
allowed is unlimited.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
The alternate issuing rules editor can now allow
defining the maximum number of loans that a borrower
of a given category can take out per branch, regardless
of item type.
The form for entering this limit now appears below
the form for setting loan rules per patron category
and item type. The form only appears if a specific
branch is chosen, not if the default branch is used.
Also, some terminology changes:
* "Amount Loanable" => "Current Checkouts Allowed"
* "Amount" => "Fine Amount"
* "Grace Period" => "Fine Grace Period"
* "Charging Interval" => "Fine Charging Interval"
* "Loan time" => "Loan Period"
Documentation change: new screenshots for the alternate
loan rules form.
squashme terminology
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Issuing rules are now explicitly sorted by patron category,
then item type. The default patron category sorts last; within
a list of item types for a given patron category, the default
item type sorts last. This follows the order in which
the issuing rules are applied.
Since the primary sort is patron category, also moved that
to be the first column in the issuing rules table.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Improvements to smart-rules.pl to allow it to
replace issuingrules.pl.
* standardized "borrower type" to "patron category"
* made default item type and patron category ('Any')
translatable
* regularized construction of parameters for rule
deletion operatrion
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
removing "link" field which has been removed from table auth_subfield_structure
Removing a $dbh->disconnect
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
from circulation dashboard, creates new sysprefs, assigns
the sysprefs to the proper tab in sysprefs (Circulation),
updatedatabase changes to do the previous, and fixing one
redundent limit in the query for build_holds_queue.pl
Note: still need to address item-level holds
Third attempt to correct a bug affecting this page.
Combo lists wasn't reflecting DB content in modification.
To Joshua: You have to apply patch 2 first (patch 1 isn't required)
since I applied this quick fix without rolling back to original state!
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
An earlier attempt to prevent deletion of default framework
by passing a suitably constructured URL actually had
the opposite effect - the default framework could be deleted,
but ia hon-default one could not.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Changed some of the tests so that all frameworks
are tested, not just the first row.
This patch has turned up a reported error in the
unimarc_lecture_pub - items.homebranch
and items.holdinbranch for the WEB framework are
in tab -1 (i.e., ignored), but the check is expecting
them in tab 10. Not sure if this is a real error or not:
perhaps no items should be created for bibs in that framework;
on the other hand, it is still possible to do so, in which
case the branches need to be set.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Editing authorisedvalue now checks if OTHER value has the same authorised_value
before storing
id is now passed to the form so that it is used when editing authorised_value
when imageurl it is passed as '' not empty parameter
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Added new script under the Administration menu
to create, update, and delete patron attribute types.
Some things to note:
- once an attribute is created, its code cannot be changed
- the repeatibility and unique_id settings of an
attribute type cannot be changed after creation -
this is to avoid having to deal with changing
constraints if an attribute type is already in use
by patron records
- an attribute type cannot be deleted if it is
used by any patron records
- this administration page is always displayed regardless
of the value of the ExtendedPatronAttributes syspref. If
the syspref is off, the page will prompt the superlibrarian
to turn it on if desired.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Added two tables and system preference to support
a new patron alternate ID and attributes feature.
A patron attribute (or extended patron attribute) is an
additional piece of information associated with a patron
record. Each attribute has a type that specifies
whether the attribute is repeatable, can serve as
a unique identifier, can take a password, and
whether it can be used to search for patron records
in the staff interface.
The list of attribute types is controlled by the
superlibrarian. Once an attribute type is defined,
values for that attribute can be added to the patron record
via the staff interface or the batch patron import.
Two uses of extended attributes are:
- defining additional unique identifiers, such as
a campus student ID number, a library staff
HR number, and so on. These IDs can be used
for searching or matching and overlaying records
during a batch import.
- additional statistical categories. For example,
a library could define an attribute type for
tracking the academic major of a student patron.
Any number of attributes of this sort could be
defined.
The extended attributes feature is completely optional. If
the new syspref, ExtendPatronAttributes, is OFF, the patron
attributes tables will be ignored; it will not be possible
to display, edit, search for, or match on extended
attributes.
The tables are:
[1] borrower_attribute_types - store attribute types
defined by the administrator.
- code
- description
- repeatable (whether a patron record can have
more than value of a given attribute type)
- unique_id (whether values of this type
must be unique within the database)
- opac_display (whether values of this type
can display in the patron details page in the OPAC)
- staff_searchable (whether values of this type
can be used to retrieve patron records in circulation)
- password_allowed (if set, staff patron editor will
allow a password to be associated with a value; this
is mostly a hook for functionality to be implemented
in the future.
- authorised_value_category (code of an authorised_value
category. If one is specified, the staff patron
editor will use a dropdown for setting values of this type)
[2] borrower_attributes - the actual attributes.
- code (attribute type code, FK)
- borrowernumber (link to patron, FK)
- attribute (the value)
- password (password associated with value)
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Adding New Systempreference AddPatronLists
This systempreference allow administrator to choose if patrons are created on categorycode lists or category_type ones.
Overloading GetBorrowerCategory so that if no parameter provided, it returns the list of category records
Changing memberentry.pl in order to use the categorycode when provided.
Bug Fixing Circulation.pl so that doesnot come up with Error 500
with no category selected for GetBorrowerCategory
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Removed the categorytable, mediatypetable, and subcategorytable
tables. These three tables appear to be from an incomplete
patch from pre-git that defined these tables to implement
additional search limits, and are not present in the 2.2.9
package. In 3.0, these tables did nothing - the only code that
referred to them are incomplete admin editors that lack HTML
templates and are not referred to anywhere.
The updatedatabase.pl logic to remove these tables is conservative;
the tables are dropped only if they exist and are all empty. Effectively,
this means that they'll be dropped if you've been running a fresh install
of 3.0 from git or the alphas or betas; if you've upgraded your database
from 2.2.9, these tables likely weren't in your database to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
This patch adds the ability to associate icon images with authorized values.
They're not displayed anywhere yet, though. There's also a database update
in here. I took version "3.00.00.075", but I can change that later if it gets
taken before I commit these patches.
DOCUMENTATION CHANGES: When you add or edit authorized values, you can now
associate image icons with them. These icons come from the same icon sets
that you can have with your itemtypes, such as media type. They don't show
up anywhere yet, but that's coming. Keep an eye on
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
for more updates.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
I'm extracting some of the icon manipulation logic so that I can get to it from the authorized values pages.
There should be no functionality or documentation changes with this commit.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
I've rearranged the two directories where media type icons live.
I've also added two more collections of icons, one from
http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/bridge_icons/
and one from liblime (Tina). The first has a license restriction that I added
to the "Licenses" tab on the "About" page.
Then, I've adjusted the Item Types Administration page so that it can deal
with multiple collections of icons.
I also added a test script to verify that the two identical icon directories
are actually identical.
DOCUMENTATION CHANGE: It's possible that we need to add something to the administration
documentation to indicate how you can add more sets of icons if you want. You simply add
directory to koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/itemtypeimg/ and to
koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/itemtypeimg. The icons should start showing up.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
The patch update the DB by adding a row in the subscription table (serialsadditems), that is filled with the value of the syspref.
then, the syspref is deleted.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Check verifies that all subfields for each tag
are assigned to the same editor tab (or are ignored).
This situation can lead to data corruption, because
if an incoming MARC record has a field whose subfields
are assigned to different tabs, the first time that
record is saved in the bib editor, the field
will be split into multiple versions, each containing
the subfields assigned to a given tab.
Errors identified by this test known
in the MARC21 frameworks - I'm working on a patch to
correct those.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Because of the way that the older fine and issuing
rule editors generate the HTML form, if a branch code,
patron category code, or item type code happened to have a
'-' or '.', the HTML form would not be parsed properly, thus
adding an implicit (rather than explicit) limit on the
characters allowed in one of those codes.
This fix removes this limitation by Base64-encoding the codes
when constructing the names for the <input> elements.
Two functions are added to C4::Koha:
str_to_base64() - UTF-8 string to Base64
base64_to_str() - reverse
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
First big commit in a project to add more granular
staff user permissions to Koha.
* Created two new database tables
permissions:
stores a list of defined permissions; each
permission is to be interpreted as a child
of a top-level permission defined in the
existing user flags. For example, Tools (bit 13)
now has a separate sub-permission for each
individual tool.
The columns are
module_bit = FK referencing userflags.bit
code = code, e.g., import_patrons
description = e.g., "Import patron data"
user_permissions:
stores a list of the specific permissions that
a staff user actually has. For example, if
staff user 123 has only the 'import_patrons' subpermission
of 'Tools' (module_bit = 13), that would be represented
by having (123, 13, 'import_patrons' in user_permissions.
user_permissions and borrowers.flags are now interpreted
as follows (assuming the CheckSpecificUserPermissions syspref
is ON):
* If the appropriate bit (e.g., bit 13 for Tools) is set
in borrowers.flags, the staff user can access all
Tools functions. There should be no rows in user_permissions
for that staff user and userflag bit combination.
* If the bit is not set in borrowers.flags, but one or
more rows are present in user_permissions for that
staff user and bit combination, the staff user can
access the specified sub-functions.
* If the bit is not set in borrower.flags and there are
no rows in user_permissions for that staff user and
bit combination, the user cannot access any of the functions.
Note that this means that if a staff user can access all
functions for a module (because the bit is set in borrowers.flags),
the user will automatically be able access any new subfunctions
added to permissions by a database update.
The columns are:
borrowernumber = FK referencing borrowers.borrowernumber
module_bit, code = FK referencing permissions
* Added a new system preference, CheckSpecificUserPermissions
If this system preference is ON, staff users can be assigned
specific permissions which will be respected during
authorization checks. If this system preference is OFF, the
current userflags semantics will continue to apply.
* Defined sub-permissions for Tools. The list of specific
tools permissions is now:
edit_news Write news for the OPAC and staff interfaces
label_creator Create printable labels and barcodes from catalog and patron data
edit_calendar Define days when the library is closed
moderate_comments Moderate patron comments
edit_notices Define notices
edit_notice_status_triggers Set notice/status triggers for overdue items
view_system_logs Browse the system logs
inventory Perform inventory (stocktaking) of your catalogue
stage_marc_import Stage MARC records into the reservoir
manage_staged_marc Manage staged MARC records, including completing and reversing imports
export_catalog Export bibliographic and holdings data
import_patrons Import patron data
delete_anonymize_patrons Delete old borrowers and anonymize circulation history (deletes borrower reading history)
batch_upload_patron_images Upload patron images in batch or one at a time
schedule_tasks Schedule tasks to run
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
As announced this past February, Amazon.com will no longer be
accepting web services requests to Amazon E-Commerce Service
(Amazon ECS) version 3.0 beginning on March 31, 2008.
This patch upgrades to Amazon.com's Associates Web Service 4.0
for the following components:
1. Amazon.com Locale support for: Canada, Germany, France, Japan,
UK, and US (see the new syspref called AmazonLocale)
2. Jacket Covers
3. Editorial Reviews
4. Customer Reviews
5. Amazon.com Similar Items
The following changes MUST be made to continue using Amazon.com
content:
1. Delete the system preference: AmazonDevKey (AmazonDevKeys used
with AmazonECS 3.0 are no longer valid)
2. Add the system preferences: AmazonLocale, AWSAccessKeyID
NOTE: steps 1, 2 are done by the web installer
3. Verify your AWSAccessKeyID:
You may already have an Access Key ID. You can access your Access
Key ID by going to http://aws.amazon.com, pointing to Your Web
Services Account, then clicking View Access Key Identifiers.
Depending on when you signed up for ECS 3.0, you may need to
re-register for an AWS account, which includes an Access Key ID.
4. Enter your AWSAccessKeyID in the Koha syspref called
AWSAccessKeyID
For complete details on the changes in Amazon.com Associates Web
Service 4.0, and the migration process, please see: http://tinyurl.com/ysorqy
Other changes with this patch:
* added $tabsysprefs{PatronsPerPage}="Patrons";
* Moved OPAC Features to OPAC in sysprefs
* removed experimental OPACXISBNAmazonSimilarItems and XISBNAmazonSimilarItems features
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
It wasn't possible to edit an existing tag. The program was idenfifying
tag modification as a tag creation.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Also added template for "prog" set, and modified admin-home and -menu accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
For instance, search for tag 290
cannot find.
Click on addTag
Save
Then wouldnot add tag 290 because used UPDATE.
Now, if tag is not found then Add tag is done.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Disable or Enable the display of query terms in the biblio.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
to let the library decide wheter their patrons can or can't renew checked-out items directly from their account.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Adding encoding for z3950 server information.
Uses Text::Iconv for conversion (ISO6937 and ISO_5428 and ISO5427)
For ISO 5426 (ANSEL or MARC-8) new char_decode5426 based on marc4j tool.
Not Tested on LOC or any USMARC z3950 source. But tested OK on BNF and SUDOC.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
* fix to bug in version 3.00.00.038 update (bad SQL)
* putting finesCalendar and CircControl in Circulation tab in
systempreferences
* changing default for IndependantBranches to 0
* removing ' from integers
* fix canreservefromotherbranches nomenclature
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Changing GanBookBeIssued to use this systempreference
Set to homebranch by default Paul and others you might want to switch this to holdingbranch to get the behaviour you are used to
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Also put the prev/next page buttons in the same place relative to the
action links
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Was in 'Catalogue', but this feature is not related to
cataloguing but OPAC search logging.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
replacing the @ by _ in the template, wich is valid.
I also have changed a little the behaviour : the New button appears only
for >010 fields (<10 have only the data, no real subfield)
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
the 3 parameters :
intranetcolorstylesheet => C4::Context->preference("intranetcolorstylesheet"),
intranetstylesheet => C4::Context->preference("intranetstylesheet"),
IntranetNav => C4::Context->preference("IntranetNav"),
are filled by Auth.pm automatically, removing them in templates
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Database schema definitions and system preferences support
for defining classification sources and filing rules.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Also added results of two subtests missing from the template.
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
- pay.pl fixed, the librarian can see patron fines & mark them paid
- fines2.pl fixed, the script now calculate the fines correctly from the finerules :
* itemtype / patron category if it exist
* itemtype / default if needed
- renamed misc/fines.pl as fines-sanop.pl
- added 2 systempreferences:
* MaxFine: the max amount a patron can be charged for an item
* NoReturnSetLost: how many days of late before a non returned item is marked lost & the patron charged for the full cost of replacement
(those values where hardcoded in fines2.pl
- C4/Circulation/Fines.pm has been removed (unused duplicate of C4/Overdues)
Note that SANOP feature about notify levels have NOT been ported here. I think they are too specific now, and the code is poorly written
I've renammed fines.pl to fines-sanop.pl to point that it is specific.
Thus, all notify_id related features are not used by anything (and always 0)
Can be interesting to reintroduce them, but that will probably be a large work...
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
updating fines rules management :
- replacing '*' by default
- removing bottom line (*) that means nothing
- dealing correctly with .0000 fine values
- fixing fine storage
still fines.pl to do
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
issuing rules are working as expeced with this commit.
working on finesrules now
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
IMPORTANT NOTE : all existing test database for 3.0 must manually delete ALL constraints on issuingrules table
(the update22to30.pl don't contain the constraints anymore, as kohastructure.sql, so are concerned only the existing 3.0 tests databases)
Filling issuingrules table :
- the issuingrules table can't have a constraint on categorycode, as we have a '*' categorycode (=default issuingrule)
- reintroducing the "default" issuingrule column
- changing some text ('*' replaced by something more explanatory)
- handling correctly the '0' (that is different from 'undefined'
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
lot of bugs to fix...
- a foreign key on patron category is stupid as we have a wildcard
- having a wildcard on itemtype is useless, removing it in template
- reindenting & removing some commented lines
- fixing some SQL bugs (insert/update lines)
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
lot of bugs to fix...
- a foreign key on patron category is stupid as we have a wildcard
- having a wildcard on itemtype is useless, removing it in template
- reindenting & removing some commented lines
- fixing some SQL bugs (insert/update lines)
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
Zebra (and NoZebra) doesn't deal with stopwords.
It search the exact string the user types.
This commit :
- reintroduces stopword management script that was in 2.2
- add stopword management to Zebra & NoZebra searches.
PS : fortunatly, the stopwords table was not removed by updatedatabase, so nothing to do here.
(& the table is in kohastructure.sql)
Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
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.
