There is a field called itemtypes.summary in the DB, but as far as I have been able to tell, it is not displayed anywhere. Please enlighten me if I am wrong! :-) Here is the definition in installer/data/mysql/kohastructure.sql: summary text, -- information from the summary field, may include HTML
Do we have a good reason to start making use of itemtypes.summary or should we drop it?
I think it was once explained as a UNIMARC feature to me. Adding Frido and Victor - maybe one of them knows.
Oh looks like its an old trick to customize search results : https://gitlab.com/koha-community/Koha/blob/fcd6bdc5b8ed5cd48b19d03a86e2ab9aaa0b0626/C4/Search.pm#L1963 This is useless with XSLT display. I think it can be removed from db and item types configuration page.
Ah looks like it is used to customise addbooks.tt display : https://gitlab.com/koha-community/Koha/blob/604c7b818b63b93c66bb751ceb9d99bc1c109be9/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/cataloguing/addbooks.tt#L80 I think we should remove this code (also from C4/Search.pm).
Some working test plan is on bug 23663. It has some issues, like displaying <br/> in the result list when activated. I think if we can't implement the feature for XSLT results, we should remove it.
I vote for removing it entirely
(In reply to Caroline Cyr La Rose from comment #6) > I vote for removing it entirely +1
(In reply to Fridolin Somers from comment #4) > Ah looks like it is used to customise addbooks.tt display : > > https://gitlab.com/koha-community/Koha/blob/ > 604c7b818b63b93c66bb751ceb9d99bc1c109be9/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/ > modules/cataloguing/addbooks.tt#L80 > > I think we should remove this code (also from C4/Search.pm). I tried to add something in the summary for itemtype BK. I don't see anything different in the Cataloging search results (which is addbooks.pl AFAIK). This was on a MARC21 KTD instance.