Bug 36306

Summary: Make username creation configurable
Product: Koha Reporter: Kelly McElligott <kelly>
Component: PatronsAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dcook, gmcharlt, hdunne-howrie, hebah, kyle
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Kelly McElligott 2024-03-13 16:45:44 UTC
It would be nice to allow libraries to configure how the Koha User Name is created in the system. Libraries have many different ways they use this field, such as patron-picked user name, card number, firstname.lastname, or a totally different value. This would be a nice system preference to allow libraries to identify which works for their library and also would be nice to have it as a patron category choice.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2024-03-17 21:29:32 UTC
I feel like a similar bug was filed before, but I couldn't find it.
Comment 2 David Cook 2024-03-17 22:12:48 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> I feel like a similar bug was filed before, but I couldn't find it.

Maybe you were thinking of bug 32426?
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2024-03-17 22:15:17 UTC
(In reply to David Cook from comment #2)
> (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> > I feel like a similar bug was filed before, but I couldn't find it.
> 
> Maybe you were thinking of bug 32426?

Exactly. Thank you!
Comment 4 Hannah Dunne-Howrie 2025-07-14 12:25:17 UTC
We would also be interested in this feature. We currently tie our username field to the cardnumber field so that a user's username is their card number to make the process easy for them. We currently use a snippet of .js for this but it would be great to see if ability to configure this instead in Koha.