[Koha-devel] system preference question (anonymous preferences)

[Nicole Engard]

I'm bumping this discussion up because  AnonSuggestions  used to take
a patron ID number, and now it says 'allow' or 'don't allow' has
anyone tested to see if this works the way it says it should?

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Further information.
>
> There is a preference 'suggestion' that can be turned on or off to
> allow or not allow purchase suggestions in the OPAC.  In addition
> there is AnonSuggestion to make those suggestions (if they are
> allowed) anonymous - leaving set to zero disables - but entering a
> userID enables.
>
> AnonymousPatron is then the ID of a patron you want to display in the
> reading history instead of the real patron.
>
> Unfortunately these are 2 different things and should be handled as
> such in the code.
>
> Nicole
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree - lots of preferences - but just because i want my reading
>> history anonyimized I may want to gather names for purchase
>> suggestions - which is why I say we need 2.
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
>>> Nicole Engard a écrit :
>>>> There are 2 system preferences in my most recent version of HEAD:
>>>>
>>>>  - AnonSuggestions -- Set to anonymous borrowernumber to enable
>>>> Anonymous suggestions
>>>>
>>>>  - AnonymousPatron -- Set the identifier (borrowernumber) of the
>>>> 'Mister anonymous' patron. Used for Suggestion and reading history
>>>> privacy
>>>>
>>>> Does this mean that AnonSuggestions is not used?  I personally think
>>>> we need both and that Anon should be for suggestions and
>>>> AnonymousPatron for reading history.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please clarify these for me?
>>>>
>>> iirc, I added the AnonymousPatron, and used it for suggestions as well
>>> (in my patch for reading history opt-in). I think we don't need 2
>>> different sysprefs (we already have too many !)
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
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