[Koha-devel] Unrequiring requirements

[paul POULAIN]

Owen Leonard wrote:

>A couple of requests from Nelsonville:
>
>We'd like to *un*require the enry of alternate contact information. We'd like 
>to be able to add and update member records without entering data for alternate 
>contact (it'd be nice to have this be a system preference I guess).  Currently 
>we ask for an alternate contact when a patron fills out a registration card but 
>we don't store it in the computer.  That means that when we load our patron 
>data into Koha, every record will lack that information.  We want to be able to 
>update information in those old records without being forced to dig up the 
>paper form in a file somewhere.
>
I agree with this idea.
Please enter a bug report at bugs.koha.org.

>We'd also like to be able to add juvenile patron records without making them a 
>'child' of another record.  I see that you can 'Add Adult' and then change the 
>membership category.  Is that the best alternative?  Change the template to say 
>'Add Patron' and leave it at that?
>
Seems OK to me. Any other opinion ?

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Paul POULAIN
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