[Koha] RES: To batch change the returns / check-in

[Alex Buckley]

Great thank you for letting me know Jose!

Glad it was helpful.

Best wishes,

Alex


On 17/04/20 6:26 am, Jose Ricardo Quaglio wrote:
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> Hi Alex,
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> thank you for your return,
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> The proposal is, to determine a date for each day, after 03/17/2020.
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> As the commands are sent to the Informatica Department, I need to
> describe which of the bases will be modified, in this case, koha_biblio.
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> To avoid unnecessary reports, I deactivated on 3/16, all instances of
> Koha.
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> Thanks again for all the information,
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> Thank you,
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> Jose Ricardo Quaglio
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> Informatização de Bibliotecas - SC.211.3
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> Secretaria de Cultura
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> Município de São Bernardo do Campo
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> Tel.: +55 11 2630.9394
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> *De:*Alex Buckley [mailto:alexbuckley at catalyst.net.nz]
> *Enviada em:* quarta-feira, 15 de abril de 2020 19:39
> *Para:* koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; jose.quaglio at saobernardo.sp.gov.br
> *Assunto:* Re: To batch change the returns / check-in
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> Hi Jose,
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> Yes you're right at present in all versions of Koha 18.11 currently
> available the only way to bulk extend due dates of existing issues is
> in the database.
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> A couple of suggestions I have for your query are:
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>   * Currently your query only changes the date_due of issues due on
>     one day 17 March 2020. If you're goal is to extend all issues that
>     have been due on 17 March till today's date (i.e. issues due on 17
>     March, 18 March, 19 March and so on) then what you could do
>     instead is:
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> UPDATE issues SET date_due="2020-04-29 23:59:00",
> lastreneweddate="2020-04-15 15:01:00" WHERE date_due > '2020-03-17';
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> This will extend the due date to 29 April 2020 for any item that has
> been due between 17 March and today.
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>   * Also you will not need to specify the database name koha_biblio
>     because to get into the Koha database shell you'll be specifying
>     the database name, like so:
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> /sudo koha-mysql koha_biblio/
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> *How this would affect anything else:*
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> Any overdue issues due before 17 March will *not* be extended with the
> above amended query. Therefore you should consider doing the following:
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>   * * Stop overdue notices being generated*
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> You can do this one of two ways:
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> - If you want all notices (overdue, advance, hold and password reset
> notices) to stop being sent during the lockdown you can run:
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> sudo koha-email-disable <instancename>
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> This stops notices being sent but they are still generated. Therefore
> when the lockdown is over you will need to:
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> - Delete notices in the message_queue database table which have a
> time_queued value of during the lockdown, otherwise all overdue
> notices generated during the lockdown will be sent
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> - Re-enable email
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> sudo koha-email-enable <instancename>
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> OR
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> - Comment out overdue_notices.pl in the /etc/cron.daily/koha-common file
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> This will stop overdue notices being generated at all during the
> lockdown.
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>   * *Stop overdue fines accruing during the lockdown for those
>     overdues due before 17 March 2020*
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> - Set finesMode system preference to  /'Calculate (but only for
> mailing to the administrator)'/
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>   * *Stop patrons being charged the replacement cost of items//(only
>     applies if you are using the
>     DefaultLongOverdueChargeValue system preference)*
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> Remove the value from the DefaultLongOverdueChargeValue system preference.
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> Just to let you know soon (probably around 24th April ) Koha 18.11.16
> will be available to upgrade to and that has the wonderful feature of
> allowing you to bulk extend due dates in the Koha staff client as this
> excellent blog post by my colleague Aleisha Amohia outlines:
> https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/koha-let-people-read-longer
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> Please let me know if you have any questions at all!
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> Many thanks,
>
> Alex
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> -- 
> Alex Buckley
> Koha Developer
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> Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions
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