[Koha-devel] New features commited in rel_3_0

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello,

a mail about new features added in CVS by us recently :

In serials management : hdl did a lot of things :
- he has updated serials management to have official scripts using the 
alt_ written by katipo : the previous "official" have been removed.
- he added new screens to update serials status all at once : the list 
of waited/late serials is shown, the librarian can choose the one he 
want, and can update all of them in just 1 screen)
- he improved a lot the SerialsAddItem : this feature let the library 
create an item on the fly when recieving a serial. now, the item form is 
exactly the same as in additems.pl, there is a lot of javascript (very 
web 2.0 ;-) )
- he added the branchname to the subscription description : this way, 
the librarian & the user can see the branch where the subscription is 
stored. This feature can still be a little bit improved I think

In permissions, Antoine :
- cleaned all permissions, by removing some (few) of them & cleaning all 
scripts to be sure they use the correct permission.
- added "EditAuthorities", "Serials" and "Reports".They do what they are 
supposed to do ;-)

In virtual shelves, I added a timestamp, to know the date/time where a 
book whas added in the shelf. It will then be easy to create a RSS feed 
for virtual shelves.

In Suggestions : Antoine added a feature to select a reason why the 
suggestion has been accepted or rejected. The reason list is defined in 
Authorised values "suggest".

In Tools, Antoine has added a script (tools/clean_borrowers.pl) that let 
the library :
- remove all borrowers that did not issue anything since X days
- anonymize all issues that have been returned more than Y days ago.
X and Y being defined by the librarian before executing the script.

In OPAC, i'll commit soon (it's written), a new script for the patron, 
that will show the X most issued items of a given itemtype (or all) for 
a given branch (or all), for materials acquired in the last 3/6/12/9999 
months.

Test & enjoy ;-)
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Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT
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en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)
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