[Koha-devel] acquisitions redesign

[Russel Garlick]

Hi Pierrick,

Budget based acquisitions is something that we are very interested in. 
The system was designed and built for HLT.

I think this is something that we could work together on during the dev 
week.

It would be good to get any feedback from the list before hand though. 
This idea seems pretty sound to me.

Cheers
Russel

Pierrick LE GALL wrote:
> Hi koha-devel,
> 
> Wanting to fix bug 285 (which is not one on HEAD) I've played today
> with the acquisition module. I must admit I've found it confusing.
> There are terminology incoherence (basket/order are used at wrong
> place for instance). I've found complicated to "search a supplier" to
> add an order to a "still not existing" basket :-/
> 
> So I propose to redesign Acquisitions. Only screens, not
> C4::Acquisitions or data model, only ergonomy.
> 
> - on the main page, having the following links:
>   - pending suggestion lists
>   - supplier list
>   - basket list
>   - order list
>   - funds and budgets management
>   - currencies management
>   and still on the main page, the "Help" box already existing in 2.2
> 
> - "list" link would have an associated page. The lists are HTML tables
> with filter capability. On the supplier line of acqui/supplier.pl we
> would have a link "show baskets" to a filtered list on acqui/basket.pl
> and "show orders" to a filtered list on acqui/order.pl. On the basket
> line of acqui/basket.pl... you see what I mean.
> 
> - on each page we would have a link to "Add a supplier", "Add a
> basket"...
> 
> - most important of all is the mecanism to add an order to a basket.
> Here is what I would find a better way :
> 
>   1. the connected user selects an opened basket
> 
>   2. if the connected user has an opened basket, the pending suggestion
>      list, the search.marc/search.pl and MARCdetail.pl pages would have
>      a link to order the selected biblio.
> 
> As the catalogue is currently broken on my HEAD copy (zebra issues) I
> would be able to code only the adding of orders from pending
> suggestions, as long as catalogue is broken.
> 
> What is your opinion about my suggestions?
> 
> Bye
> 

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