Bug 30795

Summary: Configure unwanted and mandatory borrower fields based on patron category
Product: Koha Reporter: David Cook <dcook>
Component: PatronsAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: andrew, fridolin.somers, gmcharlt, hdunne-howrie, hebah, kyle, lisette, mspinney, susan.murphy
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13188
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26129
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Description David Cook 2022-05-17 23:16:03 UTC
It would be nice if there were a way to specify different unwanted and mandatory fields based on patron category (rather than enforcing 1 rule for all different patron categories).

At the moment, I see libraries putting in junk data (like '-' or 'N/A') to get around mandatory field requirements where it doesn't make sense for certain patron categories.

It makes sense to have a default rule for these fields, and then individual patron categories could be overwritten with more specific rules. 

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I suppose the difficulty at the moment is that we don't choose a patron category until we're already on the add patron screen. 

Maybe we should be making it a multi-step process. That would have its pros and cons of course. 

Actually, this reminds me of another thought I've had where we could standardize CRUD forms... but I'll open another bug for that...
Comment 1 Fridolin Somers 2022-05-19 03:24:58 UTC
+1
Makes sens
Comment 2 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2025-04-16 19:38:49 UTC
+1, have a library asking for this
Comment 3 hebah 2025-07-01 13:44:30 UTC
*** Bug 40280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 susan.murphy 2025-12-16 18:26:13 UTC
This definitely needs to be by patron category. There are staff who do NOT want other staff being able to view their DOB and it is ridiculous for accounts such as the ILL accounts to need one.