This section deals with all stuff related to borrowings management.
Borrowers configuration
In Configuration menu, there is a Borrowers items. When activated, such a window is displayed:
On top, there is the potential borrowers. Someone needs to be in this list to be used as a borrower later. Add button is used to add a new borrower. Remove button do the opposite operation. E-mail address of someone can be changed by clicked on it on the list. Name can't be changed.
Then, in this window, there is the e-mail template. It will be sent on request to a movie borrower. Some special strings can be used in this text. They will be replaced with some values. %1 will be replaced with borrower name. %2 is for the movie title. And %3 can be used if you want the borrowing date to be inserted.
Movie change
To set whether a movie is lended or not, the user have to change that in the Borrowing information tab of movies information.
There is a list containing previously defined borrowers. And Select a data button opens a calendar to specify when it has been lended.
There is also a Send an e-mail button that will send an e-mail to the current borrower. For this, it uses template defined in Borrowers configuration and also values specified in Internet tab of Preferences.
A window shows then all the information for confirmation before sending.
When a film is given back, Got back movie button have to be used. Return date can be selected (default one is current date). Then a new history item is added.
Show borrowed movies
Movies menu has a Displayed borrwed movies item. It displays a window containing movies that are lended.
Clicking on any column header, uses it as sorting criteria.
Should you have a problem using GCfilms, you can submit a bug on Gna!.