Some doubts about issuing rules
In our library we have a situation that we don't fid how to represent it with the current schema of issuing rules, maybe you can give us an idea. For every biblio we purchase we give a special treatment for the first item of that kind we purchase. That items are labeled different and their a called "room only items" (ejemplares de sala, in spanish). This books are only borrowed in house during week days; but on weekends they're borrowed till the next weekday (tipically monday). The remaining items of that biblio fit on the standard issuing rules. We want to enforce this rule but we don't find a clear way of doing this, without modifing some CGI and maybe the database estructure. Any comments will be appreciatted Andres
Andrés Tarallo a écrit :
In our library we have a situation that we don't fid how to represent it with the current schema of issuing rules, maybe you can give us an idea.
For every biblio we purchase we give a special treatment for the first item of that kind we purchase. That items are labeled different and their a called "room only items" (ejemplares de sala, in spanish). This books are only borrowed in house during week days; but on weekends they're borrowed till the next weekday (tipically monday). The remaining items of that biblio fit on the standard issuing rules.
We want to enforce this rule but we don't find a clear way of doing this, without modifing some CGI and maybe the database estructure.
Any comments will be appreciatted
You can't find a clear way of doing this because there is no way to doing this (no way at all in fact !) The only thing you can do with a specific item is setting "notforloan" for a given item. Otherwise, all items of the same biblio have the same issuing rules. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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We want to enforce this rule but we don't find a clear way of doing this, without modifing some CGI and maybe the database estructure.
Any comments will be appreciatted
You can't find a clear way of doing this because there is no way to doing this (no way at all in fact !)
The only thing you can do with a specific item is setting "notforloan" for a given item. Otherwise, all items of the same biblio have the same issuing rules.
Thanks Paul for your coments. As I've wrote in a previous mail we've noticed the items.restricted field. This field seems to us that isn't beeing used for doing nothing. So we are thinking about modifing the reserves CGI in the OPAC and the borrows so they take into account the restricted field and could enforce a rule such as we're proposing. We plan to contribute back this feature to the main development. Andres
Working on this feature I've noticed that there's a itemnumber field in the reserves table, that is unused. We plan to build this feature using this field. For doing that I'm modifing the CreateReserve to let it reserve items. This feature will be enabled by adding the itemnumber as an extra parameter. As always any feedback appreciated. Andres Andrés Tarallo wrote:
Paul POULAIN wrote:
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We want to enforce this rule but we don't find a clear way of doing this, without modifing some CGI and maybe the database estructure.
Any comments will be appreciatted
You can't find a clear way of doing this because there is no way to doing this (no way at all in fact !)
The only thing you can do with a specific item is setting "notforloan" for a given item. Otherwise, all items of the same biblio have the same issuing rules.
Thanks Paul for your coments. As I've wrote in a previous mail we've noticed the items.restricted field. This field seems to us that isn't beeing used for doing nothing.
So we are thinking about modifing the reserves CGI in the OPAC and the borrows so they take into account the restricted field and could enforce a rule such as we're proposing. We plan to contribute back this feature to the main development.
Andres
As I've posted early I'm trying to find a way for representing the issuing rules of our library. I've noticed that the items have a field named restricted, what is intended for?, it's beeing currently used? Andres
I get the following after a clean install: the connection was refused when attempting to contact server, cant see web pages. Gerry
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The error "the connection was refused when attempting to contact server" often means that apache is not listening on the correct port or IP address. I suggest working through the appropriate apache debugging guide from your distribution or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ -- Hope that helps, MJR http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/
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