README.pm

About

This plugin handles the temporary closing of a branch. It is a tool that handles:

• temporarily moving reservations to be picked up at branch to a temporary branch
• temporarily moving patrons home branch
• disabling branch in Koha REST API
• temporarily making branch items unavailable
• sends notification to patrons with this homebranch about changes

A table is displayed on first page if any branches are currently closed, with the option to reopen. Reopening reverts the changes made by the closure.

A general email subject and body can be set in configuration, but can be individually configured per closure.

Setup

To enable Koha plugins:

• enable syspref UseKohaPlugins
• in koha-conf.xml (section ):

 <pluginsdir>__PLUGINS_DIR__</pluginsdir>
 <enable_plugins>1</enable_plugins>

Note: if is not set, it will default to /var/lib/koha/$intance/plugins

Install

A new plugin must be zip-packed pluginname.kpz and contain the correct tree

./Koha/
  Plugin/
    Deichman/            # Optional subfolder to organize plugins
      NameOfPlugin.pm    # The plugin, containing required methods new, install, uninstall, configure, etc.
      NameOfPlugin/      # Subfolder with optional files, accessible to module as current folder, and in templates as [% PLUGIN_PATH %]
        configure.tt
        report-step1.tt
        tool-step1.tt
        etc.

Plugin can then be uploaded in /cgi-bin/koha/plugins/plugins-home.pl

Optional configuration can be done from there