Bug 10603

Summary: Make required fields on course reserves configurable
Product: Koha Reporter: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Component: Course reservesAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low CC: katrin.fischer, kelly, nschermann
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Galen Charlton 2013-07-17 14:26:35 UTC
There are three fields in the courses table that the UI marks as required:

- department
- course number
- course name

However, the corresponding columns in all three of these tables are nullable.  If these must be required for reasons of business logic, the columns should be not null.

Of course, it's not quite clear if all three of these columns are actually required.  Making course name required makes sense, but I'm not sure if making the department and course number required is baking in an assumption about how all academic institutions organize their course lists.
Comment 1 Nicki S 2017-08-08 12:42:14 UTC
My school doesn't use course numbers! It would be amazing if you could make this field optional. Course name should be the only required field.
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2019-04-28 18:28:23 UTC
I agree that we would like department and course number to not be mandatory to give greater flexibility.
Comment 3 Kelly McElligott 2021-11-01 10:53:11 UTC
+1