[Koha-devel] A few questions for French Team

[Antoine Farnault]

Paul POULAIN a écrit :
> 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)
>
It is a SANOP specific features. It has been add into the main menu iirc.
>> 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
If this syspref is set, the "more option" in search.pl is displayed by 
default.
>
>> 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"
>