Summary: | Split hold notes into public and internal hold notes | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Nicole C. Engard <nengard> |
Component: | Templates | Assignee: | Owen Leonard <oleonard> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | esther.melander, katrin.fischer |
Version: | Main | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27871 | ||
Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Nicole C. Engard
2014-06-03 17:10:39 UTC
I don't have any idea how libraries use hold notes (we don't use them at all), but it seems likely that some libraries are currently using notes in a way which is meant only for the staff. For these libraries, making the notes available to the patron might be a problem. To fix this bug properly we would probably have to add a "public note" field. The problem here is that patrons are allowed to leave notes and then they don't see the notes they leave. Here's the preference: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.14/en/administration.html#OpacHoldNotes Nicole (In reply to Nicole C. Engard from comment #2) > The problem here is that patrons are allowed to leave notes and then they > don't see the notes they leave. I don't misunderstand what the bug is about, I just contend that it wouldn't be appropriate to simply make the notes information public without accommodating libraries who may have been using the notes field--via the staff client--for information which they don't want the patron to see. Maybe we should split notes - have patron and staff notes? On migration we could handle all existing notes as 'staff' (internal) notes. |