[Koha] Reports

[Joseph Faneuf]

I was able to create the overdue notices by adding the appropriate << and >>
to the sides of the data element names but how can I get the librarian to
run the notices?  She won't be able to log into the server and run the
script.  She will need to run it when she requires it.  And then how will
she access them afterwards?

Joseph Faneuf
Tech Support Specialist
Narragansett Regional School District
Baldwinville, MA


-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Wagner [mailto:jwagner at ptfs.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:05 AM
To: Joseph Faneuf
Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports

If the HTML file is generated but with no content, it usually means there
wasn't a matching overdue -- the script will generate empty files if it
doesn't find any for the day.  Doublecheck your checkouts and triggers,
and make sure the patron category is set to receive overdue notices
(that's bit me a few times).

Jane Wagner
Library Systems Analyst
PTFS Inc.
Content Management and Library Solutions
6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200
Bethesda, MD  20817
(301) 654-8088 x 151
jwagner at ptfs.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Faneuf [mailto:joseph at americandreaminc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:00 AM
To: 'Jane Wagner'
Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports

There are no email addresses for any of the users.

- Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Wagner [mailto:jwagner at ptfs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:43 AM
To: Joseph Faneuf; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: RE: [Koha] Reports

Did the patron for whom the overdue notice was being triggered have an
email address in the patron record? The print notice feature will only
pick up and redirect notices for which there is no email address.

Jane Wagner
Library Systems Analyst
PTFS Inc.
Content Management and Library Solutions
6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200
Bethesda, MD  20817
(301) 654-8088 x 151
jwagner at ptfs.com


-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joseph Faneuf
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:16 AM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports

I appreciate the quick response.  I am a bit confused as to how this
works.
I have gone in and created a notice using the circulation category and
added
a few fields from the list.  I then went into overdue notice/status
triggers
and chose "that" notice for all patron categories and put 1 as the Delay.
I
then logged in as root to the koha server and created the directory
/tmp/noticedir and then I ran "sudo
/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl -n -html /tmp/noticedir.
It
created the html file but was just full of field names.

Few questions:

Can I do this from the web interface, I wish to make it so that the
librarian will be able to just run this notice batch at will?
What did I do wrong to make all the field names appear as apposed to the
data?

The test notice I created looks like this:

borrowers.firstname, borrowers.surname

branches.branchname
biblio.title
items.content

any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Joseph Faneuf
Tech Support Specialist
Narragansett Regional School District
Baldwinville, MA


-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Colin Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:19 AM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports

On 07/07/10 12:39, Jane Wagner wrote:
> Nicole is referring to our print notice function, but it does not print
to
> .pdf -- the notices for people without email addresses are sent into an
HTML
> file in a web-accessible directory.  Staff can then open that file in a
> browser and send it to the printer.  The HTML has a page break between
each
> notice.

There's a firefox add-on printpdf which allows you print a web page to a
pdf file. I've done some custom work generating orders and claims as web
pages and then using it to produce a nice printable output file. Worth
trying the plugin if you want to do something from the html output of
this (or any other) function.
Colin

-- 
Colin Campbell
Chief Software Engineer,
PTFS Europe Limited
Content Management and Library Solutions
+44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone)
+44 (0) 7759 633626  (mobile)
colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com
skype: colin_campbell2

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