[Koha-devel] TT notice question

[Stephen Graham]

Hi Martin – be great to have a look at the docs when you can send them.  Seems that I’ve got a lot to learn!

So, when you start to use TT syntax in notices then the best practice is to not use the standard <<>> “variables”, but to use TT syntax ONLY throughout the notice?

Cheers, Stephen

From: Renvoize, Martin <martin.renvoize at ptfs-europe.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 7:25 PM
To: Stephen Graham <s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk>
Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] TT notice question

It's probably context related.. perl and TT can be finicky.

.branchcode is a relation accessor as well as the column name so you may need to call .branchcode.branchcode (ie the branchcode relation followed by the same named column in the branches table branchcode.

Finally, your mixing <<>> and [%%] syntax. Whilst this does work, it's good practice to switch as a whole.

As a last note, there's actually some TT helpers for this type of insert.

I'll dig out the docs for it and add a reply here when I'm not in my phone ;)

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, 4:35 pm Stephen Graham via Koha-devel, <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org<mailto:koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>> wrote:
Sorry, I was supposed to send this to the general Koha list – please ignore!!

From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org<mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org>> On Behalf Of Stephen Graham via Koha-devel
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 4:34 PM
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Subject: [Koha-devel] TT notice question

Hi All – not specifically Koha I guess, but maybe someone can explain why this happens. I had some TT in an email notice like:

[% IF illrequests.branchcode ==  “CL” %]
College Lane LRC
[% ELSIF illrequests.branchcode == “DH” %]
De Havilland LRC
[% ELSE %]
<<illrequests.branchcode>>
[% END %]

Every time I generated the email it printed CL, which is the value of llrequests.branchcode. I just could not get the first condition to work no matter what I did – it never printed College Lane LRC always CL. However, I changed it to:

[% SET localbranch = illrequests.branchcode %]

[% IF illrequests.branchcode ==  localbranch %]
College Lane LRC
[% ELSIF illrequests.branchcode == localbranch %]
De Havilland LRC
[% ELSE %]
<<illrequests.branchcode>>
[% END %]

, and this works if I set the illrequests.branchcode to a local variable and then check this.

Not sure why I have to do this? The example I have seen on the wiki look like I should be able to test a variable against a string using ==. Just couldn’t get it to work. Any ideas?

Stephen

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University of Hertfordshire
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