[Koha-devel] A few questions for French Team

[Paul POULAIN]

Joshua M. Ferraro a écrit :
> Hey gang,
> 
> Just a few questions about some of the additions to 3.0 that I
> haven't been keeping tabs on. Could someone clarify the following:

OK, i'll try :
> 1. what is a 'professional' borrower?

A teacher for example : a physical person, that is member of the library 
not for a personal use. SANOP will tell you more, but, iirc, some 
addresses are differents than for standard Adult super-category.

> 2. what is a 'department' (in overdues)? Is it a hard-coded authorized
> value for item.location? Should it be defined in the framework?
mmm... where is do you see that ? It's something like "county", has been 
added by SANOP, but I think it should/must not appear anywhere. Pls let 
me know where it is still, i'll see how to remove it (the hardcoded part)

> 3. what is the function of z3950AuthorAuthFields and z3950NormalizeAuthor
> system preferences?

(hdl added it iirc) it's UNIMARC specific: authors should always be in 
200$f subfield. And author authorities are in 700$a.
Sometimes, there is nothing in 200$f and biblio.author contains nothing, 
  it's troublesome. Libraries think it's better copying 700$a into 200$f 
and that systempref let you setup the feature.

> 4. what is the function of expandedSearchOption syspref?

dunno

> 5. what is the nature of AutomaticItemReturn syspref?

dunno (SANOP ?)


> 6. ReservesMaxPickUpDelay syspref ... what's it for, is it years, days, months?

it's days. added by SANOP iirc

> 7. maxoutstanding, maxreserves, noissuescharge, shouldn't these
> be in issuingrules?

They are in systempreferences sinces Koha 1.0 I think. I agree we should 
improve reserve behaviour and include reserves rules like issuing rules.
I don't see what would be improved by "maxoutstanding and 
noissuescharges" depending on borrower category / itemtype / branch.

> 8. useDaysMode - shouldn't this also be in issuingrules?

dunno

> 9. borrowerRelationship - shouldn't this be configurable in the
> borrower categories? maybe a new authorized value?

mmm... you're right about configurable in borrowers category. I'm not 
sure it would be good to have an hardcoded authorized value, but maybe.

> 10. memberofinstitution syspref? - what is the effect of this
> syspref?

dunno. (SANOP will know)

> 11. SubscriptionHistory syspref? what is the effect of this
> syspref?

There are 2 subscription histories in OPAC : the "short" and the 
"complete" one. This let you choose the default one, nothing more.

> 12. Would anyone object to me declaring bankruptcy on our sysprefs,
> and re-naming all of them for 3.0? It might be a bit inconvenient
> for a few libraries currently running Koha that want to upgrade,
> but long term I think it would make things a lot simpler ...

If you "just" mean re-naming all of them, i'm 100% with you ! And I 
suggest using the same naming conventions as for subs : 
SubscriptionHistory and NOT subscriptionhistory.

I planned to ask toins for doing this, but all other code cleaning has 
already taken too long.

About migration : it should not be a real problem, if we add some
"update systempreference set systempref="InstitutionMember" where 
systempref="memberofinstitution"

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