[Koha-bugs] [Bug 17550] Display additional patron data in patron suggestion form

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17550

--- Comment #16 from Theodoros Theodoropoulos <theod at lib.auth.gr> ---
> Theodoros, do you want me to change the name and email address used in the
> patch?
Hmmm... What is the common practice? To use the github (ie almost 'dummy')
email or the bugzilla one?

> This value is not used anywhere else, why do you want to display it there?
> To me it's not consistent to display the initials in only one place, I guess
> the problem is the same on the other patron search results.
Well, this is the no.1 place where our librarians search manually for patrons
to quickly check-out books to (if they don't have their library card with the
barcode with them). If they manage to choose the proper patron from this screen
(by verifying also the patron Initials -or the Father's name) they avoid
unnecessary clicks and possibly-wrong checkouts.
The initials are also displayed in the Patron Details screen, so it's not
'only' there...
That said, indeed it would be better if this "Initials" information was
concatenated in the "Name" column of the patron result list, but I suppose this
would be a big change in Koha behavior and should(?) be documented... 
If, however, you consider that approach to be more consistent, I'll take a look
and see how it could be done.

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