[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed

[McCanna, Terran]

Excellent, thanks Scott! I searched launchpad as well and didn't find that one. Our libraries will be happy to know about these macros that work on the bills_current receipt. 

I'd still love to see one that could pull in the total owed on the items_out receipt (like %balance_owed% does on the checkout receipt) so that when someone asks for the status of their account we could give them the list of items they still have out plus their current bills all in one receipt, but I haven't found a way to do that yet. If anyone knows if there is a way, I'd be really happy to hear it. 


Terran McCanna 
PINES Program Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Suite 150 
Atlanta, GA 30345 
404-235-7138 
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Thomas" <scott at albright.org>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 9:31:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed

Hi Terran,
   I started to add the bug in Launchpad and this came up so it looks like we are not the first to run across it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/821640

It didn't come up the first time I searched Launchpad.

Thank you,
Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:34 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed

Hi Scott,

There is a %balance_owed% macro that works on the 'checkout' receipt, but it does not work on the 'items_out' receipt. 

It sounds like that would be a good bug to add to launchpad!


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Thomas" <scott at albright.org>
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:56:12 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed

Hi,
   We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing?

Thank you,
Scott


Scott  Thomas, MLS
Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System
2006 N. Main Ave.
Scranton, PA 18508
Ph: 570-207-2379
Fx: 570-348-3020
Email: scott at albright.org<mailto:scott at albright.org>