We want to change the structure of budgets by:
On page admin/aqbudget.pl, the new form to enter budgets would sport a few more fields; current fields would be kept; they are:
Budget code
Budget full name
Start date
End date
initial budget amount
branch (optional)
We would add the following fields:
a dropdown for “parent budget”, which is a list of existing budgets, in a hierarchy, with root as a default.
An example would be:
root
novels
novels in english
novels in french
dvd
etc
We would also add:
an “encumbrance alert” text box. If the budget is of, say, $1000 and this parameter is 10%, Koha outputs an alert as soon as someone tries to save an order that will leave less than $100 available in the budget. If the value is 0% Koha will let the available amount go down to 0 but not run into negatives: encumbrances+spent = $1010 will not be allowed. If the value is empty, Koha will do nothing.
an “expenditure alert” text box. Same thing as above, for spent amounts.
a note field
2 authorized values fields, to be used for reports and statistics
Koha will also give the list of librarians who have the right permissions for budget_invoice and/or budget_encumbrance (see Managing permissions on acquisition module): one can select logins in the list, or “select all” (default) to link them to this particular budget.
