Bug 40274 - Allow local definition of custom Font Awesome icons for patron accounts
Summary: Allow local definition of custom Font Awesome icons for patron accounts
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Patrons (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Depends on: 40251
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Reported: 2025-06-30 12:40 UTC by Andrew Fuerste-Henry
Modified: 2025-07-03 14:25 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2025-06-30 12:40:33 UTC
Koha puts a shield / lock / lightning bolt next to a patron's name in the patron info sidebar in the circ menu when the patron is staff / protected / superlibrarian. Bug 40251 adds icons related to shelfcheck permissions.

Libraries may find it useful to apply icons like this to staff and/or patrons for other reasons. Koha could allow libraries to define combinations of icon and title (to be shown when the icon is moused-over). Perhaps these could be connected to patron attributes, but with the option to display as an icon? Currently we have a way to make the attribute title and value show as text within the patron info -- a non-text visual option could be helpful.

To be perfectly honest, I'm filing this bug because there are so many good Font Awesome icons and I want to be able to put little wizard and cowboy hat icons on patrons. The more I think about it, the more it seems actually maybe useful :)