[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28641] ILLHiddenRequestStatuses does not consider custom statuses

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28641

--- Comment #8 from Pedro Amorim <pedro.amorim at ptfs-europe.com> ---
(In reply to Tomás Cohen Arazi from comment #7)
> Shouldn't we rename this 'alias' into a 'tag' or similar instead, and stop
> treating them as aliases?

Any other word for 'alias' could work, but I think we should first understand
the problem that status_alias is trying to solve in the first place.
In reality, status_alias is just an alternate status text to show in the UI for
its respective request that can be filtered and searched on.

Example:
A request with status (code, name) of "COMP, Completed", that has the
status_alias AV (code, description) of "COMP_RET, Item returned", will show
"Item returned" in the status column in the ILL list datatable.
So, this feature is really just adding the possibility for the Staff user to
change the visible status text of any given request, without actually changing
the request status in the database and regardless of the statuses that the
request backend provides in the status_graph.

We may want to rethink how we implement this feature, I don't know if just
changing alias to a different word is enough, but I don't have any better
suggestions right now.

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