Bug 4090 - Subscription ID showing in OPAC is confusing
Summary: Subscription ID showing in OPAC is confusing
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Templates (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: PC All
: P5 - low minor (vote)
Assignee: Owen Leonard
QA Contact: Bugs List
URL: cgi-bin/koha/opac-serial-issues.pl?se...
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Reported: 2010-02-02 03:27 UTC by Nicole C. Engard
Modified: 2023-01-07 20:57 UTC (History)
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subscription history (94.72 KB, image/png)
2010-02-02 15:27 UTC, Chris Cormack
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sub filter after library filtered (92.82 KB, image/png)
2010-02-02 15:27 UTC, Chris Cormack
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Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 01:23:02 UTC


---- Reported by nengard@gmail.com 2010-02-02 15:27:02 ----

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subscription history

When looking at a subscription in the OPAC you see the subscription ID which is confusing to the patron who has no idea what that ID means.  I'm not sure we need it as a filter or as a column because the library filter should be enough.

Also the filter for the subscription ID isn't populated unless you first pick a library anyway.



---- Additional Comments From nengard@gmail.com 2010-02-02 15:27:32 ----

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sub filter after library filtered





--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:23 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 4090 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4090
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Comment 1 Nicole C. Engard 2010-06-02 12:25:59 UTC
this is still an issue
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2012-04-15 09:20:24 UTC
Hi Nicole, 
I think it can make sense to have the subscription number when there is more than one subscription for the same title in one library. 
Perhaps we can make it work a bit better?
Comment 3 Nicole C. Engard 2012-04-15 20:25:36 UTC
Katrin,

The branch does show, so it makes sense to the user with that info, but the number is just confusing the patrons who don't know about the IDs or the way the db works.

Nicole
Comment 4 Nicole C. Engard 2014-01-24 15:15:16 UTC
I was going to tackle this, but now there is a filter on the left that lets you choose a subscription number to filter on - again this makes no sense to patrons who have no idea that this subscription for People magazine is #12 (or whatever).  Do we really need this filter on subscription ID number in the OPAC?
Comment 5 Katrin Fischer 2019-05-04 13:53:34 UTC
I am still not sure how this can be resolved best. If a library has multiple subscriptions (might be for the same brach) there is no other way to distinguish them right now but the internal number. The only thing I can come up with is to have the library define a 'name' for the subscription that can be used for filtering and display.
Comment 6 Katrin Fischer 2023-01-07 20:57:45 UTC
Maybe a solution here would be to make the ID less prominent, using something like library, callnumber (ID) as the display name?