Sorry Paul, I forgot to CC the list on this. On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:48 +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:

(http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:display_item)

On large networks, a given biblio can have multiple items. For a given patron, it's sometimes hard to see at 1st glance if a book is available at his own branch. This RFP want to improve the display of items.

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* hiding : some libraries may also want to hide completly items that are not in the branch of the patron (or branchip). A syspref could be added to activate this feature. If activated : in the result list, only the patron branch (or branchip) would be displayed. In the biblio detail same thing, but a click let the user see other items.

I have submitted a patch, and maintain it on my local git branch, that mostly does that, only without the syspref. I use the IndependantBranches syspref as the trigger since this is the way my librarians think this syspref should work. Having it controlled by a syspref would be good for the case where IndependantBranches isn't on. However there are already so many syspref's. It would be nice if we could somehow sub-group them, or have an option to hide syspref's considered 'advanced'. I think in most cases the default setting is right, so this may work. Any other idea's / comment's along this line? Thanks.