Re: [Koha] How to use housebound module?

[Agnes Rivers-Moore]

Hello Jonathan and friends

Thank you for the reply, and for building the housebound module!
We can see potential for this even in a small library, and definitely in a 
large system with a lot of people to track.

We have tinkered around with it a bit. I may not have found all the 
functionality, do correct me if I missed something.

Observations so far -

  *   We would like to be able to search on chooser/deliverer - to find 
volunteers to match with new housebounds.
  *   We would like a way to connect chooser/deliverer with housebound person 
at the profile level. This option only appears when setting up a specific 
delivery date (and has to be selected each time a delivery is added). Our 
volunteer deliverers would normally always deliver to the same patrons. Maybe a 
syspref for this option?
  *   We would like to see which patrons a chooser/deliverer delivers for, from 
the chooser/deliverer record.
  *   Housebound profile tab appears on all patron types. It would be nice to 
be able to specify which patron type(s) get that extra menu. (Looked in patron 
categories admin for a flag and there's nothing new there.)
  *   Profile text boxes are single-line - would be nice if the author list and 
notes boxes expanded with the content.
  *   Not sure what the intention of Referrer field is.
  *   Is there a way to view/print/report scheduled deliveries for a specific 
deliverer?or show on OPAC account?
  *   Can we extract statistics - number of delivery visits, number of items 
delivered... by housebound patron and by deliverer?
  *   Waaay down the development road - it would be nice if the deliverer had a 
profile with available weekdays, and Koha could report schedule conflicts if a 
patron delivery was set up for a day they were not available. Now that's really 
blue-sky thinking. It might be that linking Koha with an external scheduling 
app could achieve this.

I should say that our library does not need this module - our deliveries are 
few enough to track without Koha - but we think it could be very useful and we 
will definitely use the profile!
If enough libraries and developers are interesting in taking this further - I 
would like to help with usage suggestions and maybe content for the manual.

Agnes

On 2018-03-02 12:29 PM, Field, Jonathan wrote:

- Optionally, add additional authorised values to 'HSBND_FREQ'.
- Switch on 'HouseboundModule' syspref.
- Ensure 'ExtendedPatronAttributes syspref is on.
- On patron pages, when editing, add some to the Housebound deliverer
  and chooser groups.
- On a patron page, the Housebound menu should now be present.
  - create housebound profile
+ ensure Frequency values seem pulled from 'HSBND_FREQ'.
  - create 'housebound visits' (deliveries)
+ ensure chooser/deliverer lists are populated with patrons that
  have the Chooser or Deliverer Attribute type.
  - edit visits.
  - delete visits.

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Re: [Koha] How to use housebound module?

[Field, Jonathan]

Hi,

You might want to look at the plan on the bugzilla report

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5670

In summary,

- Optionally, add additional authorised values to 'HSBND_FREQ'.
- Switch on 'HouseboundModule' syspref.
- Ensure 'ExtendedPatronAttributes syspref is on.
- On patron pages, when editing, add some to the Housebound deliverer
  and chooser groups.
- On a patron page, the Housebound menu should now be present.
  - create housebound profile
+ ensure Frequency values seem pulled from 'HSBND_FREQ'.
  - create 'housebound visits' (deliveries)
+ ensure chooser/deliverer lists are populated with patrons that
  have the Chooser or Deliverer Attribute type.
  - edit visits.
  - delete visits.
- Switch off 'HouseboundModule'
  - the Housebound menu should disappear

We were talking about this a few days ago and will try and add some proper
documentation with screens to the manual pages.
Jonathan

On 1 March 2018 at 00:20, Agnes Rivers-Moore  wrote:

> Dear Koha users
>
> I have failed to find any manual entries or Wiki description of how to use
> the homebound module.
> Bugzilla #5670 has been under way for a while so the project may have
> changed from the original outline.
> Also it may be called house bound, or homebound, or home-bound... but I
> still cannot find it.
>
> Can anyone point me towards the information, please, or can anyone share
> some more detailed description of what this is intended to do?
>
> Is anyone using it?
> Is any further functionality intended in future?
>
> Thanks everyone,
> Agnes
>
> (Koha 17.11.03 as of Feb 2018)
> --
> Agnes Rivers-Moore
> CEO / Chief Librarian
> Hanover Public Library
> 451 10th Ave,
> Hanover, ON, N4N 2P1
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[Koha] How to use housebound module?

[Agnes Rivers-Moore]

Dear Koha users

I have failed to find any manual entries or Wiki description of how to use the 
homebound module.
Bugzilla #5670 has been under way for a while so the project may have changed 
from the original outline.
Also it may be called house bound, or homebound, or home-bound... but I still 
cannot find it.

Can anyone point me towards the information, please, or can anyone share some 
more detailed description of what this is intended to do?

Is anyone using it?
Is any further functionality intended in future?

Thanks everyone,
Agnes

(Koha 17.11.03 as of Feb 2018)
--
Agnes Rivers-Moore
CEO / Chief Librarian
Hanover Public Library
451 10th Ave,
Hanover, ON, N4N 2P1

Tel: 519.364.1420 x 1244 | Fax: 519.364.1747
Email: a...@hanover.ca |
Web: Hanoverlibrary.ca
Facebook Hanover Public Library | Twitter @HanoverLibrary

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