http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10409 --- Comment #9 from Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com> --- (In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #7)
(In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #0)
The course reserves entry form shows an error message instead of a form field for the department if no departments are defined: "No DEPARTMENT authorised values found! Please create one or more authorised values with the category DEPARTMENT."
A question about the premise of this patch, possibly for Kyle: is there a functional reason why setting a department is absolutely required? If so, why is courses.department a nullable column?
There is no functional reason to require the setting of a department. It was merely a requirement of the specification I was following ( where the functionality was based on another implementation of course reserves which made Department a required field ). Making department an optional value would do no harm. Of course, the same could be said for the "Name" field, so it's more of a philosophical question than anything. I guess the question is "In practice, will anyone want to create courses *without* course departments?". So, we can either leave department as a required field, or make it optionally require via a system preference. What are your feelings on those options? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.