Hi, I'm a French librarian working at the University Lyon3 and in charge of Koha. I want to know your feelings about the prices processing in koha and the question of the tax.
From 3.10 version, some prices are recalculated according to this tax before they are stocked in the database. It's a pretty good thing but not all the prices are recalculated and there's sometimes a bad calculation : tax is added or subtracted 2 times... Another difficulty is that there's a lot of tables in acquisitions and not all of them works in the same way...
So I wonder if a decision about the prices and a correction of all the tables in acquisitions isn't necessary... My suggestion is to stock all the price including tax and to calculate the price in the budget and in all the displaying tables according to the preferences in the vendor. I think, all the scripts of calculation and the template for displaying tables have to be correct. It could be a new goal for koha 3.16 or perhaps for koha 3.18... I'm sorry if my explanations are short and not very clear but I want to know what the community thinks of it. Have a good day Sonia BOUIS ------------------------------------------------------ Responsable du Système intégré de gestion des bibliothèques SERVICE COMMUN DE LA DOCUMENTATION Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 6 Cours Albert Thomas - B.P. 8242 - 69355 Lyon Cedex 08 ligne directe : +33 (0)4 78 78 79 03 | Fax : +33 (0)4 78 78 79 89 ------------------------------------------------------ http://scd.univ-lyon3.fr<http://scd.univ-lyon3.fr/> L'Université Jean Moulin est membre fondateur de l'Université de Lyon
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:43:03PM +0000, BOUIS Sonia wrote:
Hi, I'm a French librarian working at the University Lyon3 and in charge of Koha. I want to know your feelings about the prices processing in koha and the question of the tax.
One of the problems is that there is a lot of ad hoc price calculation (and recalculation) going on. In the code it is quite hard to rely on the values in the various fields (or to be certain that they are being used correctly). A first step would be to have a number of number of well defined/documented methods to get/set price. I'm sure if we had a better interface to order prices then issues of policy would be clarified and possibly reduced to a question of configuration switches. Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 800 756 6803 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com
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