[Koha-bugs] [Bug 13727] New: Validation of authorized values

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13727

            Bug ID: 13727
           Summary: Validation of authorized values
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Cataloging
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: rurik.greenall at kul.oslo.kommune.no
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

While automatically testing item creation, we added randomized alphanumeric
values to NOT_LOAN. When we attempted to add NOT_LOAN statuses to items, we
found that Koha did one of two things:

1) allowed us to set the status in the interface, but failed silently
2) allowed us to set the status, but added only part of the value

REPLICATION:

Type one:

1) create a new authorized value for category NOT_LOAN
2) add a value (value: "abc1de", description: "new1", OPAC description: "New
1")
3) create new item
4) set Not for loan to "New 1"

Result: Item's "Not for loan" status is ""

Type two:

1) create a new authorized value for category NOT_LOAN
2) add a value (value: "12abce", description: "new2", OPAC description: "New
2")
3) create new item
4) set Not for loan to "New 2"

Result: Item's "Not for loan" status is 12

We notice that the documentation clearly states that the values of NOT_LOAN
must not be alphabetical
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/basicparams.html#notforloan however,
we would argue that the ability to set values opens for an expectation that
they should be usable.

In terms of a fix, it is possible to add a validation pattern to the authorized
value at creation time; which is then stored in the table with the value and
can be used to validate entry via the jQuery validation plugin and a html5
data-field.

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