Bug 33742

Summary:	Add permission to circumvent HidePatronName syspref
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrew>
Component:	Staff interface	Assignee:	Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Testopia <testopia>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5 - low	CC:	gmcharlt, lucas
Version:	Main
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2023-05-15 21:20:05 UTC

It would be helpful to have a permission with which an individual user could be set to see patron names throughout the staff interface regardless of the HidePatronName value. 

We have a small number of volunteers with very limited Koha access -- essentially just the "catalogue" permission. If we turned HidePatronName to Show, the volunteers would be able to see who a given item is checked out to. But we would like staff to be able to see that information.

Comment 1 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2023-05-16 15:30:09 UTC

Or maybe the syspref HidePatronName could be updated to have a third option of "only show names to staff with edit_borrowers permission"?

Comment 2 Lucas Gass (lukeg) 2023-05-18 14:24:39 UTC

(In reply to Andrew Fuerste-Henry from comment #1)
> Or maybe the syspref HidePatronName could be updated to have a third option
> of "only show names to staff with edit_borrowers permission"?

Either this or shift HidePatronName into it's own permission so libraries can have more control over which staff see names or not?

Comment 3 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2023-05-18 14:37:51 UTC

I'm not averse to ditching the syspref entirely and creating a new see_patron_names permission. That seems a little trickier to handle at update -- if the updating system had the syspref set to show, then give the permission to all users with staff interface access? But once the update is complete, either approach seems equally usable.