[Koha-devel] new sysprefs

[Mason James]

>
>> I plan to make a patch later this week to remove these sysprefs.
>> Please let me know if any of these are in fact in use, represent
>> pre-2.2.9 features that ought to be ported to 3.0, represent a  
>> feature
>> that someone is willing to code and submit a patch for relatively
>> soon, or are in use by an existing contrib.  If there are any other
>> dead sysprefs that should be removed, please post those as well.


> In short, most of the sysprefs represent features that should be  
> forward-ported
> to 3.0, or we'll have some unhappy Koha users :-). Generally  
> speaking, most of
> them require quite trivial additions; some could definitely be re- 
> factored to
> be more generally useful.
>

Hi All,

On a related topic... thats been something ive wanted to improve for  
a *long* time....


Is it about time that koha-sysprefs area had a better way of grouping  
related sysprefs together?
(FYI: the old koha.v2  syspref-grouping seems to be missing from  
Koha3 currently?)

Perhaps a new 'systempreferences_groups' table,  and a new 'group'  
column added to the existing sysprefs table
could work as a quick-fix solution...

Then a new syspref-group could be easily created by staff or  
developers, and  new or existing sysprefs could be  easily grouped


mysql> select * from systempreferences where  variable = 'QueryFuzzy'\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
    variable: QueryFuzzy
       value: 1
     options: NULL
explanation: If ON, enables fuzzy option for searches
        type: YesNo
    group: zebra_searching    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<   NEW COLUMN?!??!?!?



In Koha.2, the only way to assign a syspref to a group was to edit  
the sysprefs.pl file
Which was too much effort for most people, and consequently lots of  
sysprefs were added without being assigned to a group.

Which has historically lead to a few (misunderstood / broken /  
duplicated)  sysprefs,

Any ideas people?


Cheers, Mason

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