Bug 40823

Summary: Default privacy setting should be renamed
Product: Koha Reporter: Lari Taskula <lari.taskula>
Component: OPACAssignee: Lari Taskula <lari.taskula>
Status: In Discussion --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low    
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Description Lari Taskula 2025-09-17 08:00:30 UTC
The default privacy (borrowers.privacy=1) wording is problematic. It claims to be the default, yet it can also be not the default if patron category has set another default value (i.e. forever or never).

OPAC privacy currently states the following:

"Default: keep my history according to library policy. This is the default option : the library will keep your history for the duration set by library policy"

I propose it to be changed to "Library policy"

So they would look like this:

Forever: keep my history without limit. This is the option for users who want to keep track of what they are reading or placed a hold on.
Library policy: keep my history according to library policy. The library will keep your history for the duration set by library policy.
Never: Delete my history immediately. This will delete all record of the item that was checked-out upon check-in, and hold history upon fulfillment or cancellation.
Comment 1 Lari Taskula 2025-09-17 08:05:28 UTC
Also if we feel like we need to state the real default option, we can still do that by checking patron category privacy setting, and appending "This is the default option." to whatever setting is the category default.