[Koha-bugs] [Bug 3482] Print overdue and hold notices for patrons without email addresses

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3482





--- Comment #2 from Jane Wagner <jwagner at ptfs.com>  2009-11-25 20:22:01 ---
Some hints on how we run these -- the overdues cron is set up as

overdue_notices.pl -t -html /tmp/noticedir -itemscontent
issuedate,date_due,title,barcode,author

(We wanted to use only certain item fields in our notices, so we specified
itemscontent fields in the cron entry; that's not a requirement for the
feature.)  The command line needs to specify a web-accessible directory where
the print notices will go -- they get a filename like notices-2009-11-24.html
(or holdnotices-2009-11-24.html).  The overdue notice itself can be formatted
to fit a Z-mailer.  Within the notice file, the text is spaced down or over to
where it will print properly on the form.  The script has code that wraps
around the notice file to tell the HTML to obey the formatting, and to do a
page break between notices.  That's so that when staff print it out, they get
one per page.  We had to add an extra syspref (PrintNoticesMaxLines) to specify
page length because our client allows a _lot_ of checkouts which meant some
notices were running onto multiple pages.  That syspref says to truncate the
print notice at that page length and put in a message about go check your OPAC
account for the full list.

The print and email overdues use the same notice file.  The print notices for
holds are different -- there's a separate HOLD_PRINT notice file and the system
uses it if there's no email address.  Then a nightly cron job runs to gather
those up from the message queue and put them in an HTML file in the notice
directory, as above.  The cron entry is

gather_print_notices.pl /tmp/noticedir


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