[Bug 29763] New: Patron information - terminology; borrowernumber
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29763 Bug ID: 29763 Summary: Patron information - terminology; borrowernumber Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P5 - low Component: Patrons Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: david@davidnind.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: gmcharlt@gmail.com, kyle.m.hall@gmail.com On the patron details page the 'Borrowernumber' is shown on the top left patron information section. 'borrowernumber' is used as part of the query/URL and is the assigned number given to a patron in the database. It is also used in other areas of the staff interface, such as the patron batch modification tool (Tools > Patrons > Patron batch modification) - see the tab 'By borrowernumber', where you can enter a list of 'borrowernumbers' to modify. Should this be renamed to something more human friendly rather than what the system uses to identify this field? Such as 'Patron number'. Our terminology list says we should use patron, rather than member or borrower: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29763 David Nind <david@davidnind.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Patron information - |Patron information - |terminology; borrowernumber |terminology: borrowernumber -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29763 David Nind <david@davidnind.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugs.koha-community | |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi | |?id=23291 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29763 --- Comment #1 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de> --- I think this is a difficult one. Using borrowernumber makes people make the connection to the database field named the same and to the URL parameter they see in a lot of places. Adding the borrowernumber to the patron information was, I seem to remember, done to help people make that connection. If we did change it, maybe using something like "Patron ID" would make it more obvious that this is an internal thing. But I am not sure we might not cause more confusion... on the other hand in translation I think we do use "Benutzernummer" in some places at least for borrowernumber. Maybe we need both: List of Patron IDs (borrowernumber) ? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
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