General letter to patrons

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Last Updated: Jun 04, 2010 12:07

Description
This service allows you to send a letter or e-mail to a group of Aleph patrons. The service uses the standard Aleph print mechanisms. Patrons may be selected by status, type, expiry date or by local or global block code. The text of the letter is defined in the print template in form_xxx. The letter may include a list of items on loan to the patron. A separate report of the patrons included in the mailing may also be generated.
Author: Matthew Phillips
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Institution: University of Dundee
Year: 2009
License: GNU Public General License
Link to terms: Detailed license terms
Skill required for using this code:
basic

State

Stable.

9th October 2009
New version released with the following enhancements

2nd February 2010

Included z308 data for key type 01 (barcode) for use by Aberdeen. Check your global.trn to ensure z308-verification is not blanked, if you want to use that field.

29th April 2010

Now cleans XML output to remove control characters which cause XML/XSL parsing errors. We had some of these in our MARC records for some reason.

2nd June 2010

Corrected bug splitting patron address lines which contained multi-byte characters (e.g. accented letters).

Perl

Depends on Perl DBI, DBD::Oracle etc. (all modules which appear to be installed with Aleph anyway).

Download the tar.gz file as above and unpack on your server. General installation instructions can then
be found in a ReadMe file in the archive.

You can then inspect the scripts and ReadMe file

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