Bug 5320

Summary: Estimate optionally next planned date for serials without periodicity
Product: Koha Reporter: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Component: SerialsAssignee: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: PATCH-Sent (DO NOT USE) CC: chris, katrin.fischer, nengard
Version: rel_3_2   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Marcel de Rooy 2010-10-28 13:23:34 UTC
For periodicity Irregular, Unknown or "Without periodicity", it would be helpful if Koha could suggest a next planned date when receiving an issue based on the time interval between the last two receivals of this serial. 

This option is triggered by new local-use preference SerialEstimatePlannedDate. If this option exists and contains uppercase W for without periodicity, I for irregular or U for unknown, or a combination of those characters, the option is enabled for these particular periodicities. Behavior does not change for other periodicities.

Implemented by some small changes in C4/Serials.pm, routine GetNextDate.

Patch has been sent.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2010-12-04 05:01:38 UTC
Hi, 
can you please attach your patch file to the bug? It's a lot easier to get the patch out of bugzilla for testing, than from the mailing list. 

I wonder if a 'real' sys pref would be better?
Comment 2 Marcel de Rooy 2010-12-15 13:12:26 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Marcel de Rooy 2010-12-15 13:15:00 UTC
Created attachment 2852 [details] [review]
Patch
Comment 4 Nicole C. Engard 2011-03-08 00:24:27 UTC
I'm confused on this patch.  Why have this depend on a local use preference? Why make the libraries create a preference to use this option? If a preference is needed it should be a preference on all systems.
Comment 5 Marcel de Rooy 2011-03-28 07:21:05 UTC
error: patch failed: C4/Serials.pm:2305
error: C4/Serials.pm: patch does not apply
Comment 6 Marcel de Rooy 2011-08-03 12:26:42 UTC
Closing this bug.