Created attachment 4673 [details] not in order It would be nice if the pull down menu with the BOR_NOTES on the patron check out screen were in alpha order.
The values in the menu come straight out of GetAuthorisedValues(), which sorts its results by "category, lib, lib_opac." Rather than trying to re-sort the data in circulation.pl I wonder if we should just change the output in the template to display the note ('lib', the description) itself rather than the authorised_value? The column size in the database is the same (varchar 80) for both authorised_value and lib, so it's not like the description is going to get too big, compared to the authorised_value, to show in the drop-down.
I'm A-OK with that, I would like the description to be longer though since we're using 'description' for a 'note' which I often need more than 80 characters for. But if we put the description in and truncate it after X characters maybe we can put the code in there too in parens or something if the code is necessary to some libraries to identify the notes. Nicole
Created attachment 4674 [details] [review] Proposed fix This patch implements only the display of the description on the assumption that at a maximum of 80 characters it will never need to be truncated. I'd be happy to modify this if others feel that libraries will miss being able to see the authorised_value.
Template only change, easy to read, marking as Passed QA
Pushed, please test