[Koha-bugs] [Bug 9303] relative's checkouts in the opac

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9303

--- Comment #54 from Heather Braum <hbraum at nekls.org> ---
Katrin, just to help in the explanation, since Kyle mentioned the sponsor
requirement in his most recent comment back to you: 

I represent the organization that is sponsoring this development and since we
requested the additional setting on the staff side to be able to turn this
feature on and off through a borrower account, we are having to do this,
because if you have the sys pref OPACPrivacy set to Don't Allow (which we
have), patrons have no ability to even turn this new feature on/off in an OPAC
account (if I remember correctly from our testing a few months ago). We have
that sys pref turned off because it currently wrecks havoc on checkout history
links for items if patrons "opt-out" of checkout history being left. In a
consortia of 42 libraries with materials going everywhere, we have to have that
checkout history to track down materials. 

Additionally, if you have a guarantor with 2 or more kids, it's much easier for
this feature to be turned on from the staff side as well -- instead of having
to log into each guarantee's account to turn this feature on. We thought adding
the ability to turn this on and off from the staff side would actually help out
patrons. 

I understand the privacy concerns -- we have them too -- and I'll let you all
continue to sort this out, but I wanted to explain where we're coming from as
the sponsor of this development.

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