Bug 18188

Summary: Should we rename items.booksellerid to items.acqsource ?
Product: Koha Reporter: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy>
Component: DatabaseAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: katrin.fischer
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Description Marcel de Rooy 2017-03-01 12:50:22 UTC

    
Comment 1 Marcel de Rooy 2017-03-01 13:14:12 UTC
See also bug 18187.
This field in items is labeled as Source of acquisition. Since it is a free text field, we can imagine that any information may be entered into this field. You could e.g. also enter a name of someone who donated a book.
Unfortunately its literal name is booksellerid. Originally, it may have been the intention to really save the booksellerid; but making it an editable text field was a bad choice.

Note: MARC21 maps 952$e to booksellerid, French UNIMARC maps 995a to it.

Would you agree with renaming the field to acqsource?
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2017-03-05 10:37:44 UTC
At the moment we use it in both ways in our library. Libraries not using the acquisitions module use it as a free text field adding the name of the vendor there. In libraries using the acquisitions module the booksellerid of the vendor is added by the acquisitions module. I am not sure what we will win by renaming it?