Bug 32749

Summary: Additional fields: Make searchable and display in result list separate attributes
Product: Koha Reporter: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer>
Component: System AdministrationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt, magnus, michaela.sieber
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33428
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Description Katrin Fischer 2023-01-30 16:52:02 UTC
At the moment for some of the additional attributes you can specify that they are searchable. If they are searchabale, they will also show up as a separate column in the result list.

When you have a lot of fields you want you want to be searchable, that can make the result list unusable. It would be quite nice if it was possible to configure the display bit separately from the field being searchable.
Comment 1 Magnus Enger 2025-09-04 09:02:02 UTC
> At the moment for some of the additional attributes you can specify that they are searchable. If they are searchabale, they will also show up as a separate column in the result list.

It looks like this was never the case. 

But there is now "Bug 19909 - Show attributes in patron search results" and it looks like this bug might be a nice enhancement to that bug.
Comment 2 Michaela Sieber 2025-09-04 09:21:18 UTC
(In reply to Magnus Enger from comment #1)
> > At the moment for some of the additional attributes you can specify that they are searchable. If they are searchabale, they will also show up as a separate column in the result list.
> 
> It looks like this was never the case. 
> 
> But there is now "Bug 19909 - Show attributes in patron search results" and
> it looks like this bug might be a nice enhancement to that bug.


I think this Bug is about additional fields under administration (cgi-bin/koha/admin/additional-fields.pl)
and not about patron attributes (borrower_attributes), see title of this bug.

For additional fields it is the case that if they are searchable they are also always displayed in the result list. 
What we would like is the option to distinguish between 'Searchable' and 'Display in result list'.
Sometimes, you just want a search option, but you don't necessarily need it as a separate column in the results list.
Comment 3 Magnus Enger 2025-09-04 12:29:48 UTC
> I think this Bug is about additional fields under administration (cgi-bin/koha/admin/additional-fields.pl)
and not about patron attributes (borrower_attributes), see title of this bug.

Gah! Sorry for confusing things!