[Koha-devel] RFC on adding 'Independant-Branches' restrictions to letters/notices

[Mason James]

Hi All,

I'm working on a feature to add branch-specific restrictions the  
editing of Tools->Notices letters

The restriction could be set using a syspref (the existing  
Independant-Branches syspref looks good) ,
or a user-level-permission (my personal choice  
'edit_notices_branch_only' perhaps?)

The only current issue is that the 'letter' table really needs a new  
'branchcode' column for this to work  simply

I have an version of this feature working on my dev koha, but the  
'branchcode' is currently being stored in the code field , and  
appended to the code value, separated by a  ' : '  -   
eg:'ACCTDETAILS:MAIN'  -  which is a workaround for the missing  
branchcode field , but obviously isnt ideal...

What are people's thoughts to added a 'branchcode' column 'letter'  
table? ,
I know we have a bit of a DB-structure freeze before the koha-beta3,  
but i thought i'd ask what everyone thought

Is this a nice feature everyone?
Paul and HDL what do you think of this, (as both of you did almost  
all of the existing 'Notices' work?)

Any thoughts poeples?

Thanks, Mason.