[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30568] Make patron name fields more flexible

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30568

--- Comment #1 from Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize at ptfs-europe.com> ---
In bug 21978 comment 9 Christopher Brannon suggests

>What if we could just get away from the name structures, and have 5 or 6 generic >name fields (i.e. Name1, Name2, Name3 etc.), and we can label them in the editor >for whatever purpose we need, and on screens they appear in the order that they >are used.  For example, Name1 is used as Surname, Name2 is First Name, Name3 is >Middle Name, and so on.  Sort will always sort in order of the fields (Name1 >first, Name2 next, and so on), and would display similar to how they appear now:
>
>In results:
>Name1, Name2 [Name3] [Name4] [Name5] [Name6]
>
>On patron account:
>Name2 [Name3] [Name4] [Name5] [Name6] Name1
>

I think this approach could work well, but it needs a little thought as to how
it would work with de-duplicating and sorting and we may still need to
implement display templating on top as currently you can call the patron-title
include with various options for different displays in different places.

I wonder if we could refine our display to a couple of more formal options..
'short' and 'long' form perhaps.. right now we have various combinations of
options in the template.. like including title or not, othernames, inverse
ordering, cardnumber, linking.. etc etc

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