Staff cannot place a request for a patron club if the staff member does not have modify_holds_priority set.
That's no good. I've also found that staff can't see the button for the tools page if the clubs is the only tool they have permission too. But that is a different bug. This definitely needs to be fixed. I don't like loop holes in permissions.
Still valid in 21.11.11. Technically place_holds is also required to get that far so it may be that the overarching reserveforothers permission is what's truly required to successfully place a club hold. The ability to place club holds should really be its own separate user permission nested under the reserveforothers (or possibly clubs?) permission group. In our club usage scenario, a mistaken club hold can lead to hundreds of a holds on a record which puts many items in motion to patrons that don't actually want them. I wrote some JS to hide the "Clubs" tab at request.pl with exception for the select staff users in charge of placing club holds. It also changes the label wording from "Search patrons or clubs" to just "Search patrons". var loggedUser = $("#logged-in-info-full .loggedinusername").text(); var clubbers = ["staffusername1", "staffusername2"]; //show for these users if ($.inArray(loggedUser, clubbers) == -1) { $('#circ_request [href="#holds_clubsearch_pane"]').closest('li').hide(); $('#circ_request label:contains("Search patrons or clubs")').text("Search patrons"); }