https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=38340 --- Comment #11 from Tomás Cohen Arazi (tcohen) <tomascohen@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Pedro Amorim from comment #9)
I'm on board with any of the proposed solutions. I just think that duplicating any file to both staff and OPAC templates is a bad practice we've been perpetuating for ever in Koha. Duplicating files for both staff+OPAC where the files are an exact match or a >95% overlap should be an option, sure, but not enforced. This is why I mentioned bug 35716 but, again, I understand that it may be out of scope here.
I think we can focus on the problem to solve (i.e. templates not being translatable) and then have the discussion about 35716, as it has a broader impact on the project. But I fully understand where you are coming from. I'll try to improve 39031 and then use it on this bug for moving the templates.
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #8)
I think there might also be a use case for having them a bit different. For example the "extra fields" you can add in the form are not suitable for a end user right now and should not be shown in OPAC like they are now.
This is how FreeForm has always worked. I understand this is not a vallid excuse, but some functionality may actually make use of it e.g. openURL. Some third-parties that link back to Koha using openURL may return additional key:values that are not considered in the hardcoded form fields and this information may be needed for reporting or something similar. I'm not saying this is a huge blocker, I'm saying there's a use case where the additional fields may be needed even though the user may never have the need to use'em. Perhaps others.
I agree this could be discussed on some other bug, as Katrin said. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.