[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28726] Add sort1 and sort2 to patron card creator patron search

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28726

Michael Hafen <michael.hafen at washk12.org> changed:

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--- Comment #22 from Michael Hafen <michael.hafen at washk12.org> ---
I'll take a look, but it will mean a big change to how I'm handling patrons, as
my use case is a little different.
I'm in a school district, and all our patron info comes in from LDAP.  We
aren't using the Authorized Values categories for the sort fields.  I wasn't
even planning on trying to use them since our servers handle building those
drop down pretty well as is.  We also have Independant Branches on, so the list
gets filtered by branchcode, so I'd also have to see if the Authorized Values
categories can do that too.
We have 72079 patrons with 2975 unique sort2 values, but each library has no
more than 200 values in the sort2, and it's usually closer to or less than 100
values. Even as the SuperLibrarian, when I load the patron card create patron
search window it doesn't take more than a second on my servers, so I've been
fine with it that way.
I can see that this isn't optimal, but the alternative is creating a cron
script to scrape LDAP to pull all the possible values for those two attributes
to sync the Authorized Values categories.

Anyway, I'll have to look at the Authorized Values stuff to see if it can meet
our use case.  And I don't mind changing the patch to use that instead, and
then changing it again in my local fork to scrape the database instead.

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