Hello Mike We already made changes to the loadmodule.pl in order to call our own acquisition module. It worked mainly but we wanted to know if there was a proper way (i.e. adding another module without modifying any existing Koha files) to do it. Will further development allow users to select their own acquisition modules name (not only acqui or acqui.simple) from the graphical interface ? Thanks Jerome Mike Hansen wrote:
Hello Jerome,
Regarding the state of Acquisitions in 1.9.2, they are a work in progress ;-]. There were a number of bugs filed (and fixed) regarding these problems. In addition, Chris is working on "forward-porting" the simple acqusitions module from 1.2.3 into the pre-2.0 series.
As to adding your own acqusitions module, yes, it would be fairly trivial to integrate another Acquisitions module into Koha. Right now, Koha uses the loadmodules.pl script to look up what module to use for acquisitions. All that would be really need to be done is to create the module, and add a line or two to loadmodules.pl.
On a related note to developers, how should we go about making it so that the work other libraries do available to everyone? Do we want to include everything in the main releases or should we have a seperate section of a website where these modifications (and how to use them) would be made available?
Mike