notes or statistics of transactions in Circulation
Hello Koha community! I would like to ask if the feature I'll be mentioning is under development. In the Circulation module, a note or statistics can be attach to circulation transactions. In our library, some bosses ask their staffs to borrow books for them, and these bosses aren't even in the Patron's database of our Koha ILS. I'm thinking I can use the guardian option (parent-child) but these staffs and bosses are both adults, so it's actually awkward. Thus, I'm inquiring if there is development for such. And also, in one of the Koha projects I am currently involved with, they wanted to know if a certain material borrowed for photocopying can be tag such, so this feature on notes/statistics on circulation transactions came up again in my mind. If this feature is off the radar, then I would like to file a bug for this. Thanks and cheers Koha community! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
I guess you could just issue the loan to the staffs account and use the function ”Add a message” from the check out screen. But a note tied to a specific checkout (instead of attaching a note to the MARC-record or item) could be useful sometimes given that the message is displayed when the item is returned. We created a way to display a message when certain itemtypes is returned. Some of that code might give a hint on where to start if someone would like to create the suggested function? http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10513 It’s not a huge overlap though since most of the new code for this should go into the checkouts table in circulation.pl I guess. Kind regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se<mailto:Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek<http://www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek> 13 maj 2014 kl. 17:11 skrev schnydszch <eugenegf@yahoo.com<mailto:eugenegf@yahoo.com>>: Hello Koha community! I would like to ask if the feature I'll be mentioning is under development. In the Circulation module, a note or statistics can be attach to circulation transactions. In our library, some bosses ask their staffs to borrow books for them, and these bosses aren't even in the Patron's database of our Koha ILS. I'm thinking I can use the guardian option (parent-child) but these staffs and bosses are both adults, so it's actually awkward. Thus, I'm inquiring if there is development for such. And also, in one of the Koha projects I am currently involved with, they wanted to know if a certain material borrowed for photocopying can be tag such, so this feature on notes/statistics on circulation transactions came up again in my mind. If this feature is off the radar, then I would like to file a bug for this. Thanks and cheers Koha community! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com<http://Nabble.com>. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Thanks Viktor! It seems I need to file a bug for this then? Cheers! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Yes a bug would increase the chances of someone else picking up the idea and implementing it. Sometimes you’re lucky :) Regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se<mailto:Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek<http://www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek> 22 maj 2014 kl. 05:22 skrev schnydszch <eugenegf@yahoo.com<mailto:eugenegf@yahoo.com>>: Thanks Viktor! It seems I need to file a bug for this then? Cheers! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com<http://Nabble.com>. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Yes a bug would increase the chances of someone else picking up the idea and implementing it. Sometimes you’re lucky :)
However, even increased chances are slim chances. If you're not willing to fund the feature you seek it would probably be better for you to find some workaround which fits with Koha's existing functionality. Often this requires re-thinking the problem in terms of possible changes to your procedure rather than changes to Koha.
In our library, some bosses ask their staffs to borrow books for them, and these bosses aren't even in the Patron's database of our Koha ILS.
Perhaps you could add notes to staff members' accounts which indicate that they have permission to check out on behalf of their bosses? By the way schnydszch your messages to the Koha list are consistently marked as Spam by GMail, so I wonder if the same is happening for other people receiving your emails. I suggest you subscribe to the list rather than using the Nabble interface: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Thanks Owen! I'll try to ask some libraries in our place, and if they are willing to sponsor such. Cheers! On Thursday, May 22, 2014 5:53 AM, Owen Leonard-4 [via Koha] <ml-node+s1045719n5798946h55@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
Yes a bug would increase the chances of someone else picking up the idea and implementing it. Sometimes you’re lucky :)
However, even increased chances are slim chances. If you're not willing to fund the feature you seek it would probably be better for you to find some workaround which fits with Koha's existing functionality. Often this requires re-thinking the problem in terms of possible changes to your procedure rather than changes to Koha.
In our library, some bosses ask their staffs to borrow books for them, and these bosses aren't even in the Patron's database of our Koha ILS.
Perhaps you could add notes to staff members' accounts which indicate that they have permission to check out on behalf of their bosses? By the way schnydszch your messages to the Koha list are consistently marked as Spam by GMail, so I wonder if the same is happening for other people receiving your emails. I suggest you subscribe to the list rather than using the Nabble interface: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [hidden email] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... To unsubscribe from notes or statistics of transactions in Circulation, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/notes-or-statistics-of-transactions-in-Cir... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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