[Koha-bugs] [Bug 15765] Request to replace borrowernumber list by cardnumber

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15765

--- Comment #6 from Heinrich Hartl <Heinrich.Hartl at email.de> ---
Thank you Chris for your comments, they made me look at my proposal again.

I did some testing: 
I tried to enter an invalid borrowernumber. It was silently ignored when
pushing the ADD button. Since something I normally would like to be achieved
failed, I would prefer to get a warning message.
After the batch was set up I deleted a patron (both with tool batch deletion
and also with patro/more/delete). In both cases the patron was also removed
from the batch list.
+++ The required input validation is in place :-)

I scanned through the patron reports. There I found an almost balanced result:
cardnumber is used only slightly more frequently than borrower number. It seem
to be a personal preference, finding myself clearly on the cardnumber side.

To accomodate both preferences I agree with Katrin: why not have both in the
table.

Please have a look at patroncards/add_user_search.pl table:
Card / Name / Category / Library / Expires / Notes / Add
where Card holds cardnumber (which barcode string), Name holds surname,
firstname(cardnumber), ...  
and compare it with patroncards/edit-batch.pl table: 
Borrower Name / Borrower number / Action / Select
Where Borrower Name again is surname, firstname and Action is Delete | Export

add_user_search displays barcodes string twice. 
add_user_search panal could be improved by more clearly indicating which fields
are searched for the entered search string. I would like very much if a select
column together with "select all" and "add selected" buttons were added!

If the contents of the add_user_search table are judged satisfactory why not
display consistent and rich information when displaying edit-batch.pl table?

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