Bug 4426 - Syspref to set the default privacy level of patrons
Summary: Syspref to set the default privacy level of patrons
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 6254
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Patrons (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: PC All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Galen Charlton
QA Contact: Bugs List
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-04-30 09:55 UTC by Magnus Enger
Modified: 2012-10-26 00:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Change sponsored?: ---
Patch complexity: ---
Documentation contact:
Documentation submission:
Text to go in the release notes:
Version(s) released in:


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 01:27:02 UTC


---- Reported by magnus@enger.priv.no 2010-04-30 09:55:00 ----

In the proposed patch for http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3881 "No Page for Opac Privacy", the default privacy level of borrowers is set to 1: 

# borrower reading record privacy : 0 : forever, 1 : laws, 2 : don't keep at all
$dbh->do("ALTER TABLE `borrowers` ADD `privacy` INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1;");

Bug: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3881
Patch: http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2009-December/004973.html

At least in Norway, libraries are required by law to have what is in effect privacy level 2 as the default, ie information about returned loans should be deleted/anonymized immediately on return, unless the patron has asked for the information to be retained. 

With a default privacy level of 1, this could of course be implemented by running an anonymization-task frequently, but it strikes me as more elegant and less prone to errors to make it possible to set the default privacy to the desired level with a syspref. This enhancement would necessitate a reworking of how the default is set, since it is set at the database level in the proposed patch.



---- Additional Comments From katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de 2010-04-30 09:59:38 ----

I think we have a similar situation here in Germany.
Keeping the reading list is reqired to be opt-in not opt-out.




--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:27 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 4426 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4426
This bug depended on bug(s) 3881.

Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.

Comment 1 Nicole C. Engard 2012-01-23 22:32:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6254 ***