[Koha-bugs] [Bug 21978] Add middle name field

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21978

--- Comment #9 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
I have managed to work around the short comings of the initials field not
showing in the search results, but I have to use a report to fix each result in
the results table.  I imagine this is taxing on the server, as each time you do
a vague patron search, and you end up with 10 possible patrons, for example,
the jquery has to run 10 reports to grab the patron info needed.  It doesn't
seem to be too slow, but I don't like having to do this for something that is
commonplace for the US.

What if we could just get away from the name structures, and have 5 or 6
generic name fields (i.e. Name1, Name2, Name3 etc.), and we can label them in
the editor for whatever purpose we need, and on screens they appear in the
order that they are used.  For example, Name1 is used as Surname, Name2 is
First Name, Name3 is Middle Name, and so on.  Sort will always sort in order of
the fields (Name1 first, Name2 next, and so on), and would display similar to
how they appear now:

In results:
Name1, Name2 [Name3] [Name4] [Name5] [Name6]

On patron account:
Name2 [Name3] [Name4] [Name5] [Name6] Name1

I suggest keeping othernames, initials, title, and such as is.

Thoughts?

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