Bug 29763

Summary: Patron information - terminology: borrowernumber
Product: Koha Reporter: David Nind <david>
Component: PatronsAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23291
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Description David Nind 2021-12-23 05:53:57 UTC
On the patron details page the 'Borrowernumber' is shown on the top left patron information section.

'borrowernumber' is used as part of the query/URL and is the assigned number given to a patron in the database.

It is also used in other areas of the staff interface, such as the patron batch modification tool (Tools > Patrons > Patron batch modification) - see the tab 'By borrowernumber', where you can enter a list of 'borrowernumbers' to modify.

Should this be renamed to something more human friendly rather than what the system uses to identify this field? Such as 'Patron number'.

Our terminology list says we should use patron, rather than member or borrower: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2022-01-09 11:27:33 UTC
I think this is a difficult one.

Using borrowernumber makes people make the connection to the database field named the same and to the URL parameter they see in a lot of places. Adding the borrowernumber to the patron information was, I seem to remember, done to help people make that connection.

If we did change it, maybe using something like "Patron ID" would make it more obvious that this is an internal thing.

But I am not sure we might not cause more confusion... on the other hand in translation I think we do use "Benutzernummer" in some places at least for borrowernumber.

Maybe we need both: List of Patron IDs (borrowernumber) ?