[Koha] Batch checkin in 18.05 koha

[Martha Fuerst]

There is a bug in Bugzilla for this, if you would like to contribute/add your voice.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19814 <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19814>

There is also a quote on Bywater’s Crowdsourced Development page: http://devs.bywatersolutions.com/2018/01/05/2018-01-05-batch-checkin-module/ <http://devs.bywatersolutions.com/2018/01/05/2018-01-05-batch-checkin-module/>

Marti Fuerst
Systems Librarian
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL 35801
http://hmcpl.org/ — mfuerst at hmcpl.org

> On Oct 31, 2018, at 11:50 AM, 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.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Hoffman <paul at flo.org>
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