Would be great to have a runtime parameter for groups of libraries as they are set in the libraries & groups menu.
I don't know what this means, and Nicole hasn't worked on Koha for a long time, so I don't think she'd be able to clarify
I'd like to reopen and clarify since I was about to submit a new bug for this. The reports module has several runtime parameters that can be used to easily pull a list of values for selecting when running a report. See https://koha-community.org/manual/latest/en/html/reports.html#runtime-parameters. Library groups are not currently a runtime parameter. Because library groups are stored in the library_groups table instead of as an authorized value, there's currently no way to pull in a list of library groups to select from when running a report. The library staff member running the report needs to know their library's group code and type that into a text entry for any reports that need to pull data from all libraries that are within a library group. If library groups were added as a runtime parameter, similar to branches or item types, this could be called on in the report and would show up as a drop-down list. This would be a huge benefit to library consortiums and systems that have multiple groups of branches where reports would need to be run by group instead of by individual branch.
Yes, for sure having library groups as a parameter is extremely important for just about any multi-branch system.
Yes. This would be a great feature for Koha installation with multiple branches but when Nicole wrote the original bug I think there were only two types of groups - Search Domain groups and Library Property groups. Groups have expanded now to include - Limit patron data access by group (ft_hide_patron_info) - Limit item editing by group (ft_limit_item_editing) - Use for OPAC search groups (ft_search_groups_opac) - Use for staff search groups (ft_search_groups_staff) - Is local hold group (ft_local_hold_group) - Is local float group (ft_local_float_group) So any work on adding runtime parameters for library groups to the Reports module is going to need to include a way to specify which type of group the parameter works with.