[Koha] New Acq Documentation

[Paul Poulain]

Nicole Engard a écrit :
> Hi all,
>   
Hi Nicole,
> I'm going to need some help with documenting the new acq module. There
> are a lot of new links and features that I'm not sure about.
>
> First is regarding the different types of budgets - there are Root
> Budgets and Period Budgets ... and maybe more ;)
>   
root budget & budget periods are the same thing. After some discussion 
with nicolas, we decided to use only "root budget" (and budget period 
strings can be considered as a bug)
A root budget is the overall amount of money you plan to spend on a 
given period. You can have more than 1 root budget active, for example, 
a year budget for 2010, and some more money to spend during spring time.
A root budget has : a start and end date, an amount, a status "active" 
and a status "locked". If "active", then a budget can be used during 
acquisition (even if today is out of start-end date range : it means you 
can order at the end of the year on next year budget, or at the 
beginning on last year budget). If "locked", sub-budgets can't be 
modified by librarians.

HTH

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