Quoting Alan Simon <[email protected]>:
Hello -
This is a repost of an #evergreen IRC chat posting.
I would like to create a new action trigger that is similar to
90-day Mark Lost but that would mark an item billed instead of lost.
I have created a new billing type of 'Long Overdue' and a new copy
status of 'billed,' and want to create a new Reactor called
MarkItemBilled, based on the MarkItemLost reactor used by the 90-Day
Mark Lost action trigger. The MarkItemLost reactor calls sub
set_item_lost in OpenILS::Application::Cat::AssetCommon, so I
thought that I would copy that module to
OpenILS::Application::Cat::AssetCommonHSLC and edit it to include
only a set_item_billed subroutine based on set_item_lost.
No comment there. I'll assume that you have a reason to want to mark
something as "BILLED" rather than "LOST." (I saw some of that
discussion in IRC.)
I see that set_item_lost sets variables defined in
OpenILS::Application::AppUtils (e.g.,
OILS_SETTING_LOST_PROCESSING_FEE) and
OpenILS::Application::Circ::CircCommon (e.g.,
OILS_COPY_STATUS_LOST). However, those modules does not define
locally-defined settings like our 'Long Overdue' billing type and
our 'Billed' status. How does
OpenILS::Application::Circ::CircCommon know what those are?
It finds the constant values in OpenILS::Const.
It also sets a variable found in the
/openils/var/data/ils_events.xml file, which contains translations
including non-alpha characters. How do I (and should I?) edit that
file to add a new event?
One developer has plans to make that file go away since it only
partially implements all of the events that Evergreen has. His
intention is to move them into the database. I know that doesn't
really answer your question, but I guess it is a way of saying that
you don't have to edit that file unless you really want to.
Thanks very much for whatever help you can give me.
Alan
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