[Bug 13178] New: cardnumber field length is too short
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 Bug ID: 13178 Summary: cardnumber field length is too short Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Patrons Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: Jeremy.evans@nibsc.org QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: gmcharlt@gmail.com, kyle.m.hall@gmail.com The cardnumber field in the Patron record is currently limited to 16 characters. We do not use patron cards. We prefer to use the user's email address as the card number as it is unique to that person and they can remember this. However the domain section of our work email for one of our sites is 14 characters before prefixing it with firstname.lastname Therefore when saving the record this truncates after the first 16 characters. We would like the cardnumber field length to be extended, say to 40 characters -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|unspecified |master --- Comment #1 from Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> --- I'm sure there's not any problem with making the field longer (other than finding someone to do the work), but I'm wondering why you don't enter the patron's email address as their username and have Koha auto-generate card numbers? That way Koha handles the card numbers without you having to think about it, and the user can log in to their account using their email address. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 --- Comment #2 from Jeremy Evans <Jeremy.evans@nibsc.org> --- Owen, Thanks for your quick reply. I must admit I hadn't thought of that option. I have just tried it out and I think this would actually work better as it is one less field to worry about when creating a new patron record. We usually look up the user by surname in the staff client when checking something out. So this bug can be closed I think. Also related is this one which would automatically align the username login to the email address field. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2237 Jeremy -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 Brendon Ford <brendon.ford@manhattan.edu> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |brendon.ford@manhattan.edu --- Comment #3 from Brendon Ford <brendon.ford@manhattan.edu> --- We are also having an issue with the 16 digit character limit. Our card readers output a trailing equals sign and then send a backspace keystroke to remove it when swiping a card. Since our card numbers are 16 digits the equals sign never gets typed into the field and the backspace removes the last digit of the card number. We can't reprogram the card readers because it would leave the equals sign in other fields that we swipe card numbers into. We are currently using a bit of javascript to extend the maxlength, but it would be great to see the character limit extended. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 Joonas Kylmälä <j.kylmala@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |j.kylmala@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Joonas Kylmälä <j.kylmala@gmail.com> --- There is CardnumberLength system preference but it doesn't change the max length of the cardnumber when trying to edit x patron's cardnumber. Does anyone know what is the purpose of this preference, does it change the cardnumber length somewhere else? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.
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