[Koha] How to show description of item type in ISSUESLIP

[Jonathan Druart]

Replace the whole checkedout "loop" with the FOR loop
The example in the test file should give you an idea about how to do that.


El vie., 17 may. 2019 07:49, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> escribió:

> Hi Jonathan
>
> Thanks for the code! I have included it as follows, but in fact the
> whole thing is in another loop called "checkedout":
>
> <checkedout>
> <p>
> <<biblio.title>> <<items.barcode>><br />
> [% USE ItemTypes %]
> [% FOREACH checkout IN checkouts %]
> [% ItemTypes.GetDescription(checkout.item.effective_itemtype) %]<br />
> [% END %]
> Fällig am: <<issues.date_due>><br />
> </p>
> </checkedout>
>
> I tested and there is some output now, but instead of
>
> Book1 Barcode1
> ItemtypeOfBook1
> Fällig am: DueDateBook1
>
> Book2 Barcode2
> ItemtypeOfBook2
> Fällig am: DueDateBook2
>
> it shows like this:
>
> Book1 Barcode1
> ItemtypeOfBook1
> ItemtypeOfBook2
> Fällig am: DueDateBook1
>
> Book2 Barcode2
> ItemtypeOfBook1
> ItemtypeOfBook2
> Fällig am: DueDateBook2
>
> Very often an issue slip does does contain more than two books so for
> example with seven checked out books for every single book all seven
> item types of all seven books are shown. Do maybe you know the solution
> to this problem?
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't find the place, where <checkedout></checkedout>
> or object variable "checkout" is documented. I have found Plugin
> "ItemTypes" in page
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Notices_with_Template_Toolkit but
> it says it is "To be documented".
>
> Best wishes: Michael
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> Am 16.05.19 um 20:52 schrieb Jonathan Druart:
> > And so, this should work:
> >
> > [% USE ItemTypes %]
> > [% FOREACH checkout IN checkouts %]
> > [% ItemTypes.GetDescription(checkout.item.effective_itemtype) %]<br />
> > [% END %]
> >
> > Le jeu. 16 mai 2019 à 13:46, Jonathan Druart
> > <jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Sorry, I am completely wrong.
> >>
> >> See an example in the test file:
> t/db_dependent/Letters/TemplateToolkit.t
> >> The variable 'checkout' does not exist, you need to loop on
> >> 'checkouts' as there are several checkouts :)
> >>
> >> Le jeu. 16 mai 2019 à 13:42, Jonathan Druart
> >> <jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Hi Michael,
> >>>
> >>> ISSUESLIP is not ready for TT syntax.
> >>> See also bug 15283.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Jonathan
> >>>
> >>> Le jeu. 16 mai 2019 à 09:40, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> Our notice ISSUESLIP does contain the following lines:
> >>>>
> >>>> <<biblio.title>> <<items.barcode>><br />
> >>>> <<items.itype>><br />
> >>>> Fällig am: <<issues.date_due>><br />
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately the content of field "items.itype" is coded, so the
> output
> >>>> of the middle line is just "06" or "20" instead of the actual
> >>>> description of the respectve item type (e. g. "CD" instead of 06, or
> >>>> "DVD" instead of 20). We have tried to replace "<<items.itype>><br
> />" by
> >>>>
> >>>> [% IF items.itype == '06' %] CD<br />
> >>>> [% ELSIF items.itype == '20' %] DVD<br />
> >>>> [% ELSE %]
> >>>> [% END %]
> >>>>
> >>>> or
> >>>>
> >>>> [% IF ( items.itype == '06' ) %] CD<br />
> >>>> [% ELSIF ( items.itype == '20' ) %] DVD<br />
> >>>> [% ELSE %]
> >>>> [% END %]
> >>>>
> >>>> or
> >>>>
> >>>> [% IF ( items.itype == '06' ) %] CD<br />[% END %]
> >>>> [% IF ( items.itype == '20' ) %] DVD<br />[% END %]
> >>>>
> >>>> or
> >>>>
> >>>> [% SWITCH items.itype %]
> >>>> [% CASE '06' %] CD<br />
> >>>> [% CASE '20' %] DVD<br />
> >>>> [% END %]
> >>>>
> >>>> or
> >>>>
> >>>> [% IF items.itype %]
> >>>> [% USE ItemTypes %]
> >>>> [% ItemTypes.GetDescription(checkout.item.effective_itemtype) %]<br />
> >>>> [% END %]
> >>>>
> >>>> Though, none of these worked - nothing happened. Can anyone please
> tell
> >>>> me the correct way how to achieve this, if this is possible at all?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best wishes: Michael
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