[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10409] Do not show course entry form if no departments are found

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10409

--- Comment #9 from Kyle M Hall <kyle at bywatersolutions.com> ---
(In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #7)
> (In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #0)
> > The course reserves entry form shows an error message instead of a form
> > field for the department if no departments are defined: "No DEPARTMENT
> > authorised values found! Please create one or more authorised values with
> > the category DEPARTMENT."
> 
> A question about the premise of this patch, possibly for Kyle: is there a
> functional reason why setting a department is absolutely required?  If so,
> why is courses.department a nullable column?

There is no functional reason to require the setting of a department. It was
merely a requirement of the specification I was following ( where the
functionality was based on another implementation of course reserves which made
Department a required field ). Making department an optional value would do no
harm. Of course, the same could be said for the "Name" field, so it's more of a
philosophical question than anything. I guess the question is "In practice,
will anyone want to create courses *without* course departments?".

So, we can either leave department as a required field, or make it optionally
require via a system preference. What are your feelings on those options?

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