On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Martin, >> >> note re Mahnung. >> >> A Mahnung is what one receives anytime something is overdue. Typically it >> will >> be a payment of a bill that you forgot. A polite letter comes entitled "First >> Mahnung". Typically there is no penalty imposed at this stage. The second >> Mahnung and beyond gets messy - nobody wants to go there in Switzerland!! >> >> In the case of our library I receive the Mahnung by email telling me it is >> overdue and informing me how much I owe in a fine. >> >> I seem to recall that in the English library system it was called an overdue >> notice. > > Do you think we have to change the term in the databases? In the report > of the database O have called this "Admonition". > If changing is necessary we have to decide, which term I have to use. > In case of this library you get a "Mahnung", when you haven't brought > back the loan media. For every week you have to pay, for example, 0,25 €. > > I'm looking only in the www for the terms. And I don't know, if I will > find the right terms at all. > > Regards, > > Robert >
Robert, I think we should leave it the way you have it in the database, and we'll put a note in the Handbook that different terms may be used in different library systems. What that item is called is not important for the purpose of explaining how to use Base. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
