Bug 9131

Summary: Improve usability when linking to guarantor from patron record
Product: Koha Reporter: Christopher Brannon <cbrannon>
Component: CirculationAssignee: Owen Leonard <oleonard>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, kyle.m.hall
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Guarantor Button

Description Christopher Brannon 2012-11-21 21:34:38 UTC
Created attachment 13618 [details]
Guarantor Button

I'd like to throw out a suggestion to the Koha community to recommend a change in a future release.  The suggestion is this: 
 
I think that the button on the Guarantor Information section in patron editing is not accurate.  It seems like it should say “Link this guarantor” or "Link to account".  Aside from that, this process is a little confusing, because one (including myself) would think to type in the name and then click set (or link).  However, what goes in the field here isn’t applied to setting or searching.  It is discarded.  What would be even better is if you had something typed in, it would try to search for those names, and then give you the option to revise.

So, if someone were to place a name in the field and then press "Link this guarantor", it would search for that name.  If both fields are left blank, it should be greyed out.

Hope this makes sense.  Just seems like it would be more intuitive.

Christopher Brannon
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2019-04-28 09:41:39 UTC
I agree that having the input field doing nothing is confusing. I think at least it should be greyed out/read only.
Comment 2 Owen Leonard 2019-12-17 19:53:40 UTC
This interface is now much clearer.