[Koha] Reports

[Joseph Faneuf]

I have setup the cron job but I can't seem to find the due_date field to add to the notice?  Where can I find that?  It would seem pertinent to have it so that they know when it was due.

- Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:44 AM
To: Joseph Faneuf
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports

It's not the kind of thing you run when you want to run it, it's
something you set up a cron job for that runs on a regular basis
without you having to do anything.

Here's the info on that:
http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=a11146#AEN11249

Nicole

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Joseph Faneuf
<joseph at americandreaminc.com> wrote:
> I was able to create the overdue notices by adding the appropriate << and >>
> to the sides of the data element names but how can I get the librarian to
> run the notices?  She won't be able to log into the server and run the
> script.  She will need to run it when she requires it.  And then how will
> she access them afterwards?
>
> Joseph Faneuf
> Tech Support Specialist
> Narragansett Regional School District
> Baldwinville, MA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane Wagner [mailto:jwagner at ptfs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:05 AM
> To: Joseph Faneuf
> Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports
>
> If the HTML file is generated but with no content, it usually means there
> wasn't a matching overdue -- the script will generate empty files if it
> doesn't find any for the day.  Doublecheck your checkouts and triggers,
> and make sure the patron category is set to receive overdue notices
> (that's bit me a few times).
>
> Jane Wagner
> Library Systems Analyst
> PTFS Inc.
> Content Management and Library Solutions
> 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200
> Bethesda, MD  20817
> (301) 654-8088 x 151
> jwagner at ptfs.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Faneuf [mailto:joseph at americandreaminc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:00 AM
> To: 'Jane Wagner'
> Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports
>
> There are no email addresses for any of the users.
>
> - Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane Wagner [mailto:jwagner at ptfs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:43 AM
> To: Joseph Faneuf; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports
>
> Did the patron for whom the overdue notice was being triggered have an
> email address in the patron record? The print notice feature will only
> pick up and redirect notices for which there is no email address.
>
> Jane Wagner
> Library Systems Analyst
> PTFS Inc.
> Content Management and Library Solutions
> 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200
> Bethesda, MD  20817
> (301) 654-8088 x 151
> jwagner at ptfs.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joseph Faneuf
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:16 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports
>
> I appreciate the quick response.  I am a bit confused as to how this
> works.
> I have gone in and created a notice using the circulation category and
> added
> a few fields from the list.  I then went into overdue notice/status
> triggers
> and chose "that" notice for all patron categories and put 1 as the Delay.
> I
> then logged in as root to the koha server and created the directory
> /tmp/noticedir and then I ran "sudo
> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl -n -html /tmp/noticedir.
> It
> created the html file but was just full of field names.
>
> Few questions:
>
> Can I do this from the web interface, I wish to make it so that the
> librarian will be able to just run this notice batch at will?
> What did I do wrong to make all the field names appear as apposed to the
> data?
>
> The test notice I created looks like this:
>
> borrowers.firstname, borrowers.surname
>
> branches.branchname
> biblio.title
> items.content
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Joseph Faneuf
> Tech Support Specialist
> Narragansett Regional School District
> Baldwinville, MA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Colin Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:19 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports
>
> On 07/07/10 12:39, Jane Wagner wrote:
>> Nicole is referring to our print notice function, but it does not print
> to
>> .pdf -- the notices for people without email addresses are sent into an
> HTML
>> file in a web-accessible directory.  Staff can then open that file in a
>> browser and send it to the printer.  The HTML has a page break between
> each
>> notice.
>
> There's a firefox add-on printpdf which allows you print a web page to a
> pdf file. I've done some custom work generating orders and claims as web
> pages and then using it to produce a nice printable output file. Worth
> trying the plugin if you want to do something from the html output of
> this (or any other) function.
> Colin
>
> --
> Colin Campbell
> Chief Software Engineer,
> PTFS Europe Limited
> Content Management and Library Solutions
> +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone)
> +44 (0) 7759 633626  (mobile)
> colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com
> skype: colin_campbell2
>
> http://www.ptfs-europe.com
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