Bug 24073

Summary: Allow suggestion management page to default to all libraries
Product: Koha Reporter: Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrewfh>
Component: AcquisitionsAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: emily.lamancusa, george, lucas, maggie.wong, marjorie.barry-vila, mtj
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14830
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21328
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Description Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2019-11-20 16:21:41 UTC
When looking at purchase suggestions on suggestion.pl, the default behavior is to show only suggestions for the branch one is logged in at. This can result in overlooked suggestions, especially for libraries that have more than once branch but process all suggestions at a single location.

It would be good to have the option of making this page default to showing suggestions for all libraries.
Comment 1 George Williams (NEKLS) 2019-11-21 16:06:09 UTC
I think this is a good idea, so long as showing suggestions for all libraries as the default is optional.

I used to work in a situations where staff at LIBRARYA did not want staff at LIBRARYB to see what patrons from LIBRARYA were suggesting due to privacy concerns.  In that situation we used jQuery to disable the #branchcode dropdown on suggestion.pl and staff were not allowed to switch libraries so that they had to log out and log back in to see suggestions for other locations - but they could only do that if they had a username and password for that location.
Comment 2 magsk 2019-12-18 00:43:33 UTC
It would be great if there is a setting to show suggestions from 'Any' library .

For us, we were quite puzzled at first when we saw 2 suggestions pending but there was no data after clicking into the suggestions. We couldn't figure out where the suggestions were and later learnt that the suggestions were in ACQ Info where we need to run a search with 'Any' Library. It is quite troublesome to have to check suggestions like this.
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2019-12-22 14:02:08 UTC
*** Bug 14830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Lucas Gass 2021-05-06 13:17:48 UTC
I am wondering if this problem has been solved by Bug 26833 since now we can see both the logged in branches suggestions and all libraries suggestions on /cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl.
Comment 5 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2023-08-16 15:30:26 UTC
(In reply to Lucas Gass from comment #4)
> I am wondering if this problem has been solved by Bug 26833 since now we can
> see both the logged in branches suggestions and all libraries suggestions on
> /cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl.

This issue is not particularly solved by Bug 26833. If I follow the link to All Library suggestions from the homepage, I go to /cgi-bin/koha/suggestion/suggestion.pl?branchcode=__ANY__#ASKED and see all suggestions. But if I move off of that page in order to edit a suggestion, all of the avenues back to the main Suggestions page will end up just taking me to /cgi-bin/koha/suggestion/suggestion.pl, where I'll see only my logged-in branch suggestions.

We need a way to make the page always default to all branches.