[Koha-bugs] [Bug 29963] Date accessioned plugin should not automatically fill today's date on cataloguing screens

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29963

--- Comment #25 from Alex Buckley <alexbuckley at catalyst.net.nz> ---
(In reply to Benjamin Daeuber from comment #24)
> > 
> > Going forward if there are concerns with the original patch changing the
> > behavior of one item form making it inconsistent with others in cataloguing
> > and acq. Then I think, instead of a behavior change, it should be sufficient
> > to add a hint saying that if you save the 952$d with nothing in it Koha will
> > still auto-populate the 952$d with today's date. Perhaps this is the most
> > straight forward solution?
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't really see an issue with being
> context aware. Hints get missed with potentially far reaching consequences
> in the case of a batch edit. Logical, context aware behavior seems more user
> friendly. It makes sense to populate that field in the case of serials and
> new items, but not in the case of item edits. I don't really find that to be
> an inconsistent behavior.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this Benjamin. I think it could be helpful
to get Katrin's thoughts on the best approach because as Martin noted in
comment #18 she failed QA the original 29815 patch as it doesn't affect all
data entries.

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