[Koha] Doc Help - New Acq Permissions

[Nicole Engard]

Thank you!! You rock - this is all very very helpful!

Nicole

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Nicole Engard a écrit :
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm not sure who specifically to send this to so I'm sending it to the
>> entire list.
>>
>> I'm working on documenting the new permissions.  I need some help with
>> additional details for the acquisitions permissions:
>>
>>    * budget_add_del Add and delete budgets (but can't modify budgets)
>>    * budget_manage Manage budgets
>>    * budget_modify Modify budget (can't create lines but can modify
>> existing ones)
>>
>
> mmm... not sure, maybe "manage budget" is a mistake (was there at some
> point, is useless now). Could you file a bug & affect if to
> jeanandre.santoni at biblibre.com please ?
>>
>>    * contracts_manage Manage contracts
>>
>
> You can define contracts (with a start and enddate) attached to booksellers.
> When you create a basket, you can say it's related to contract X. At the end
> of the year, you'll be able to see "how much did I spend on contract X". In
> france, contract sometimes have a minimum and a maximum yearly amount. The
> report does not exist yet, but at least the data is here (and a SQL report
> can be builded easily)
>>
>>    * group_manage Manage orders & basketgroups
>>
>
> a basket group is a ... group of basket. In some libraries, you have X
> buyers that create baskets, and, at the end of the month, someone group them
> in a single "basket group" that is sent to the bookseller. In some
> libraries, when a buyer closes a basket, a basketgroup can be created as
> 1basket = 1basketgroup. Both behaviours are also possible in new_acq :
> create a basketgroup when closing the basket, or group baskets.
> Also note that the pdf printing comes in 2 flavours :
> - layout2pages => page 1 is the header, then pages 2+ show all order lines,
> ordered by isbn (not grouped by basket)
> - layout3pages => page 1 is the header, page 2 the summary of all baskets,
> then pages 3+ are all baskets, one after the other.
>>
>>    * order_manage Manage orders & basket
>>
>
> to create orders and basket
>>
>>    * order_receive Manage orders & basket
>>
>
> ??? is it a typo ? It's for recieving orders.
>>
>>    * period_manage Manage periods
>>
>
> deal with root budgets (should not be "period")
>>
>>    * planning_manage Manage budget plannings
>>
>
> deal with budget plannings. Once you have entered your budgets, you can see
> the list button top/right, that displays branches/itemtype/month/any
> authorised value used in budgets. If you click on one of this button, you'll
> be able to "plan" how much you plan to spend for each budget.
> 2 behaviours here :
> - if budget is not locked = you can enter what you PLAN (expect/hope/want)
> to do
> - if budget is locked = you see what you planned to do and what you do in
> fact.
>
> In a very near future, we may split those 2 screens for better readability.
> And (maybe it's already done, I don't remember), if you didn't plan
> anything, you should not see 0.00 / 123.45 (0.00 => planned 123.45 => spent)
>>
>>    * vendors_manage Manage vendors
>>
>
> vendors = booksellers
>>
>> Most importantly - I need clarification on what "Manage" entails for
>> everything.  Next, both order_manage and order_receive have the same
>> description - what's the diff between the two?
>>
>
> bug in the description
>>
>> Regarding the 2 budget permissions - Add & Delete makes sense, Modify
>> makes sense - what then do you need the Manage permission for? What do
>> you get to do when Managing that you can't do with the other two.
>>
>
> probably a bug then...
>>
>> What is a basket group?
>> What is a period?
>> What is a budget planning?
>>
>
> all of this answered previously isn't it ?
>
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