---- Reported by bibliwho@gmail.com 2009-09-09 11:24:57 ---- I'd like a designated parent to have the ability to access all the OPAC features that their children normally would when the latter log in to the OPAC under their own accounts. In other words, when a parent logs in to their own account, they will also be able to do all of these for their children's accounts: (from http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/opac/your-account) View and renew items checked out View and renew items overdue View status of and cancel holds you have placed View fines you owe Submit changes to your personal details (like name or address) Submit a change to your password View your Reading History (also known as 'Checkout History') Manage your purchase suggestions (view status and add) Manage how you're notified by the library of events and due dates Review an edit your lists If new features are planned under 3.2, then these should also be available. Rationale: A family administrator account would make it much easier for families to maintain their library accounts. At present, for example, the simple task of making a list of all family items due back would require a parent to set up user logins for each of his/her children & log in under each of those accounts. Note that this should be an _option_ at the child account level. To meet librarians' long-standing respect for patrons' privacy & intellectual freedom, access to account information for young adults in particular may need to be limited to that account alone (& staff of course.) ---- Additional Comments From jransom@library.org.nz 2009-09-09 20:54:23 ---- I can imagine that this could be a system default setting, yes or no, that a parent could access the accounts of all linked children from their own card. Then it can be either turned on or off on a case by case basis. It would also be cool to be able to 'nominate' a secondary parent card. I would like to sponsor this now rather than waiting because we are planning a reregistration exercise in the next few months and this would be a good opportunity to get all these linkages and settings tidied up. --- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:12 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3591 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3591 Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0 The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here: chris@bigballofwax.co.nz. Previous reporter was bibliwho@gmail.com.
Created attachment 2458 [details] screenshot of suggested change
Comment on attachment 2458 [details] screenshot of suggested change confused bug numbers, screenshot belongs to bug 4979
I think this would be a good feature to add. If parents are to be responsible for the loans and fines of their children, they should be able to manage them from their OPAC account. I would add a system preference similar to AllowStaffToSetCheckoutsVisibilityForGuarantor / AllowPatronToSetCheckoutsVisibilityForGuarantor that creates a yes/no toggle to allow OPAC actions (instead of just visibility) by the guarantor.
*** Bug 22062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should this bug be cut up in different ones to make it easier to patch? e.g. one bug to allow guarantors to renew checkouts, one bug to allow holds, on bug to change personal info, etc.
(In reply to Caroline Cyr La Rose from comment #5) > Should this bug be cut up in different ones to make it easier to patch? > e.g. one bug to allow guarantors to renew checkouts, one bug to allow holds, > on bug to change personal info, etc. YES! Please!
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #6) > (In reply to Caroline Cyr La Rose from comment #5) > > Should this bug be cut up in different ones to make it easier to patch? > > e.g. one bug to allow guarantors to renew checkouts, one bug to allow holds, > > on bug to change personal info, etc. > > YES! Please! Ok :) I'm changing this one to "omnibus"
The original request was for - View and renew items checked out We can already view, I created a bug for renewing (bug 32423) - View and renew items overdue I think this is already included in checkouts - View status of and cancel holds you have placed I created a bug for this one (bug 32424) - View fines you owe This is already possible - Submit changes to your personal details (like name or address) Not sure about this one? - Submit a change to your password Not sure about this one... I feel like a guarantor could change their guarantee's password without telling them and the guarantee wouldn't be able to log in anymore... - View your Reading History (also known as 'Checkout History') Not sure about this one either. It would have to take into account when the viewing of checkouts was allowed in order to prevent the guarantor to see checkout they were not allowed to see...? - Manage your purchase suggestions (view status and add) I don't see the usefulness of this - Manage how you're notified by the library of events and due dates Like the password change and personal info change, I feel like this could lead to abuse - Review an edit your lists I don't see the usefulness of this If someone feels like some of these are necessary, you can create a separate bug and link it to this one through the Depends on/Blocks link.
These new features would definitely help.