[Koha-devel] new "letter" system in HEAD

[Paul POULAIN]

Hi developpers,

I'm pleased to introduce the new "Letters" system :
Letters will be used everytime you want to sent something to someone 
(through mail or paper). For example, sending a mail for overdues use 
letter that you can put as parameters. Sending a mail to a borrower when 
a suggestion is validated uses a letter too.
the letter table contains 3 fields :
* code => the code of the letter
* name => the complete name of the letter
* content => the complete text. It's a TEXT field type, so has no limits.

My next goal now is to work on point 2-I "serial issue alert"
With this feature, in serials, a user can subscribe the "issue alert". 
For every issue arrived/missing, a mail is sent to all subscribers of 
this list. The mail warns the user that the issue is arrive or missing. 
Will be in head.
(see mail on koha-devel, 2005/04/07)

The "serial issue alert" will be the 1st to use this letter system that 
probably needs some tweaking ;-)

Once it will be stabilised default letters (in any languages) could be 
added during installer to help the library begin with this new feature.

To test those features, 2 ways :
* http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/letter.pl (login test/test)
* update your CVS copy, run updatedatabase and go to letter.pl

Enjoy.
-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)