[Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] suggestion module

[Bigwood, David]

The suggestion module looks a lot like an interlibrary loan request form to me, especially the document request. Looking at some open source projects working with ILL might be a good idea. If not to grab bits of code maybe to get an idea of the fields and look. If something was standards compliant so much the better.

OpneRequest http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrequest/ might be worth a look.
ILL Wizard http://library.olivet.edu/opensource/iso-ill.html is another.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
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[mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of nicolas morin
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:58 AM
To: Paul POULAIN
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Subject: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] suggestion module


Paul POULAIN wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The "Ecole des Mines de Nantes" funds a suggestion module. It will be 
> in 2.2
> You can read on the wiki 
> (http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=SuggestionFeatures) 
> the planned features.
> Please report any suggestion to improve this suggestion module. 

There might be a point for replacing "A suggestion can be done by any 
user. The user who requested the book is stored in the DB." with:
" A suggestion can be done by any registered and logged in user"
It excludes persons who use the opac as guest users and request a 
document without having logged in: it might be better if we know who 
requested the document; we might then be able to put it aside for 
him/her when it's available, etc. Or the library might have a public 
policy about purchase requests: they are only accepted from members of 
the community, etc...
But maybe it's too restrictive, I don't know.

About the fields:

    * a title
    * an author
    * a copyright date
    * an editor

The list seems short to me. We might propose a longer list (isbn, 
whatever), allow the user to ignore a field he don't know, expect 
author/title.

Nicolas

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