[Koha] Batch checkin in 18.05 koha

[Arshad Iqbal]

Your suggestion is looking tricky..
On Oct 31, 2018 9:50 PM, "Paul Hoffman" <paul at flo.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:27:08PM +0500, Arshad Iqbal wrote:
> > This feature can be added in koha coming version..
> > On Oct 31, 2018 4:58 PM, "Owen Leonard" <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Without offline plugin not possible
> > >
> > > Koha has no built-in tool for batch checkins like there is for batch
> > checkouts.
> > >
> > > There is an open bug report for this feature, but as far as I know no
> > > one is working on it:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19814
>
> If you're feeling adventurous, you might try doing this from the command
line
> using a simple script; something like this (totally untested!):
>
> # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use C4::Context;
> use C4::Circulation;
>
> while (<STDIN>) {
>     chomp;
>     s/\r$//;
>     my $result = ProcessOfflineReturn({ 'barcode' => $_ });
>     if ($result =~ /success/i) {
>         print STDERR "OK $_\n";
>     }
>     else {
>         print STDERR "ERR $_ $result\n";
>     }
> }
> # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Save it as /foo/bar/checkin.pl (just for the sake of example), make it
> executable (chmod a+x /foo/bar/checkin.pl) and invoke it like this:
>
> koha-shell -c /foo/bar/checkin.pl < /foo/my/file.txt
>
> Where /foo/my/file.txt is just a bunch of item barcodes, one per line.
>
> The ProcessOfflineReturn() function takes care of everything for you --
look up
> the item given its barcode, find the patron who checked it out, mark it
> returned, etc.  It's defined in the file
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm
> around line 3726 if you want to see exactly what it does.  (I find the
Koha
> source code remarkably easy to read and generally have no trouble
figuring out
> how to use it from a Perl script, though it helps that I've been
programming in
> Perl for a long, long time.)
>
> Paul.
>
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