[Koha-bugs] [Bug 31498] Allow for custom primary contact method values

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31498

--- Comment #17 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
(In reply to Tomás Cohen Arazi from comment #15)
> I see why y'all feel this should be completely arbitrary values: because it
> is only used for display purposes.
> 
> The catch is this options:
> 
> * phone
> * phonepro
> * mobile
> * email
> * emailpro
> * fax
> 
> refer to real `borrowers.*` columns, so my fear is at some point someone
> will want to tie the *selected prefered contact method* value on that
> column, to a real behavior/function in Koha.
> 
> So, thinking in advance, I feel like the current options should be presented
> a system-defined, which can also be disabled, and then we allow users to
> define their own.
> 
> 'Do not contact' should be a default system option (value NULL).
> 
> One drawback for this particular implementation is the contact methods are
> translatable (templates) right now. Moving them to the AV table will make
> them not-translatable or have every non-english install need to manually
> tweak the introduced AVs.

+1 

I've had the same feeling looking at this and I think it's a good idea. If
people want to hide some entries, which makes sense as we allow to hide any
patron field, we could inherit that from BorrowerUnwantedFields maybe or have a
separate visibility setting.

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