User manual

Chapter 4

Generating advance notices

Advance notices are sent to patrons when items are due. To generate such notices,

we need to script advanced_ not ices .pl

as a cronjob. Add a line to the crontab as

follows:

49 5 * *

* perl / home /koha /kohacone/ bin /cronjobs /advance_notices.pl -c

This cronjob will execute at 5:49 AM every day and generate and queue advance

notices messages to patrons.

Generating overdue notices

Overdue notices are sent to patrons when items are past due. To generate such

notices, we need to script overdue_not ices .pl as a cronjob. Add a line to the

crontab as follows:

45 5

* * * perl /home /koha /kohaclone/ bin /cronjobs /overdue_notices.pl -t

This cronjob will execute at 5:45 AM every day and generate and queue overdue

notices messages to patrons.

Sending e -mail messages

To send e -mails to patrons we will need to script

process_messages .

pl in the

crontab:

30 6 * *

* perl / home /koha /kohaclone /bin /cronjobs /process message queue.

The

process_messages .

pl program sends out the queued messages via e-mail.

This is the reason it should be scheduled after the advance notices and overdue

notices cronjobs. In this example, we have scheduled the program to run at 6:30 AM

every day.

Calculating fines

To calculate fines we script

f ines .pl

as follows:

0 7 * *

* perl / home /koha /kohaclone /bin /cronjobs /fines.pl

The

fines .

pl program calculates fines on overdue items based on circulation rules

setup in Koha.

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