Thanks Mark for sharing this We also had difficulty with this process, as our clients respond better to letters rather than emails. Regards Shannon Taheny Information and Resources Coordinator Multicultural Aged Care Library library@mac.org.au -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mark Alexander Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2020 10:23 PM To: koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Printing overdue letters Excerpts from Mark Alexander's message of 2020-01-04 20:27:31 -0500:
I think this might work, except that I can't figure out how to get a patron's list of overdue books into the generated letter. The SQL would need to produce a CSV file with a single row for each patron, containing the patron name, address, and an arbitrarily long list of overdue books.
A kind person replied off-list and gave me the magic I needed: GROUP_CONCAT. Thanks! In case anyone is interested, here is the SQL I ended up using: SELECT p.cardnumber, CONCAT(p.firstname, ' ', p.surname) as name, p.address, CONCAT(p.city, ', ', p.state, ' ', p.zipcode) as city, GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT_WS(' ', REPLACE(b.title, ' /', ''), CONCAT('$', i.replacementprice)) SEPARATOR '; ') as overdues FROM borrowers p LEFT JOIN issues c ON (p.borrowernumber=c.borrowernumber) LEFT JOIN items i ON (c.itemnumber=i.itemnumber) INNER JOIN biblio b ON (i.biblionumber=b.biblionumber) WHERE (TO_DAYS(curdate())-TO_DAYS(date_due)) >= <<Days overdue>> GROUP BY cardnumber _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ________________________ This email was scanned by Bitdefender