[Koha-bugs] [Bug 15174] Allow borrowers to be members of additional categories

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15174

Viktor Sarge <viktor.sarge at regionhalland.se> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Viktor Sarge <viktor.sarge at regionhalland.se> ---
> I am not sure about this change - Koha uses the patron's home category in a
> lot of places. Can you describe the use case for this?

We developed this one as a bit of a favor to Luleå who have been in need of
this feature (though I think they will change their rules now instead). It's
quite common for libraries here to have multiple accounts for the same patron
depending on in which role they use the library. We have lots of integrated
libraries that are both the school and community library at the same time. That
means that the same library will serve the same patrons as both
students/teachers and as ordinary child/adult accounts. One solution might be
to switch library but that will mess up shelving since there's actually only
one library and is also impractical when the public can access the library
during school hours. This patch would mean that it's a bit easier to handle
that type of problems without ugly hacks. 

When discussing this development Martin did identify a whole lot of places
expecting a single code (73 I think), but we suspect that checkout and overdue
notices/fees may be enough for the scope of this problem. Before doing further
development I think that we need to see that others would find this useful and
that it has a fighting chance to get accepted.

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