misc/cronjobs/patron_emailer.pl was introduced by Bug 16149, but as far as I can tell it is not documented in the manual. Sorry if I missed it. I'd say documenting this is extra important, since it is a cool feature that is not visible from the Koha GUI (but see also Bug 27452.)
I'll have a go at drafting something out and run it by our support company- I've not done any documentation work in Koha, so I am a newbie. I just love the patron emailer functionality and we are using it a lot, with more uses to come. But I am struggling a bit with the lack of html / TT support that I have rasied in Bug 27443.
Hi Ray, have you unsuccessfully tried to mark the notice template used as HTML? From looking at the cron I don't see why that wouldn't work. It seems to use the standard procedure for creating emails. The patron emailer documentation on ByWater's blog also included some TT - sadly that is no longer accessible. Maybe by TT you think of specific objects or variables?
Apologies- on 22.11 I have notices being sent by the patron_emailer.pl script working perfectly with html, and the fields pulled in from the report must use TT notation so html and at least some TT is supported. All I can assume from earlier failures (ages back) must be down to specific objects/ variables that either aren’t fully supported (or more likely!) I had syntax errors in my TT code.
(In reply to Ray Delahunty from comment #3) > Apologies- on 22.11 I have notices being sent by the patron_emailer.pl > script working perfectly with html, and the fields pulled in from the report > must use TT notation so html and at least some TT is supported. All I can > assume from earlier failures (ages back) must be down to specific objects/ > variables that either aren’t fully supported (or more likely!) I had syntax > errors in my TT code. Thanks for the feedback! I think it would be worthwhile to have better documentation especially with some no longer available for the plugin.