[Koha-bugs] [Bug 5592] New: circ rule cloning can be dangerous

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5592

           Summary: circ rule cloning can be dangerous
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: System Administration
        AssignedTo: paul.poulain at biblibre.com
        ReportedBy: gmcharlt at gmail.com
         QAContact: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


The clone circ rules widget on the circ rules page unconditionally deletes the
target library's existing rules and replaces them with copies of the rules from
the source library.  Consequently, if the clone rule button is accidentally
clicked, a lot of configuration work can be destroyed in an instant.

To avoid this:

* there should *always* be a required confirmation step, whether the
clone-rules.pl script is accessed directly or via the smart-rules.pl page
* even better, a backup copy of the previous version of the target library's
rules could be made

The library who ran into this bug had tried cloning the rules form a different
library because they thought that would be a way to copy over that library's
rules and add them to the rules that the target library had previously entered
-- that kind of cloning-via-merge feature also seems like a good idea, in fact.

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