NAME

koha-claim - Claim overdues each day, grouping same overdues

VERSION

version 0.056

SYNOPSIS

koha-claim
koha-claim --doit
koha-claim --doit --to myself@tamil.fr

DESCRIPTION

This script creates claim notifications to borrowers for their overdues based on claim rules. Notification are inserted into Koha standard notification queue (message_queue table). They have then to be processed by process_message_queue.pl script. The notifications group overdues. So for example, if a borrower has 3 overdues, 1 for 10 days and 2 for 20 days, and if you have 2 rules, one for 10 days and another one for 20 days, 2 notifications (not 3, one for each overdue) will be prepared: the 20 days notification will group the 2 20 days overdues.

Rules are found in ClaimRules Koha system preference.

# Branch itype days action notice
# action => 1=email, 2=debarre
*    *   15  1   REL1
MAIN *   25  1   REL1
*    BK  40  1   REL1
*    *   55  1   REL1
*    *   75  1   REL1
*    *   85  1   REL4
*    *   90  1   REL1

This script MUST be run every day. It matches overdues on a exact number of days of overdue.

Without --doit parameter, the notifications are sent to the terminal (stdout) rather than to the notification queue.

The notifications are entered in Koha in Tools > Notifications. Items information must be enclosed into <items> </items> tag. For example:

Library <<branches.branchname>>
<<branches.branchaddress1>>
<<branches.branchzip>> <<branches.branchcity>>
<<branches.branchphone>>

Miss, Madam, Sir,

This is overdue:

<items>
  Title:       <<biblio.title>>
  Author:      <<biblio.author>>
  Call Number: <<items.itemcallnumber>>
  Borrowed at: <<item_branch>>
  Due date:    <<issues.date_due>>
  Type:        <<itemtypes.description>>
</items>

AUTHOR

Frédéric Demians <f.demians@tamil.fr>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2018 by Fréderic Démians.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007