[Koha-devel] Proposal to change phone and email language on patron

[Nicole Engard]

Enhancement request added:

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5252

Feel free to discuss other options there.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Page created: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library I
> used the same template we use for the SQL Report Library.
>
> Nicole
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Brendan Gallagher
> <info at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
>> I think a page on the wiki - similar to the SQL library would be good -
>> something like JQuery Library.  This could be a good piece to add and I know
>> that we've got a few that we would be interested in adding.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brendan
>>
>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Liz Rea <lrea at nekls.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep, will hit you with it Tuesday. :)
>>>
>>> Liz
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Liz, that is exactly why I was asking for this - it was confusing
>>> > librarians that the home was all that printed to the screen.  But it
>>> > sounds like jquery is the answer for now ... want to share that code
>>> > with me?
>>> >
>>> > Nicole
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Liz Rea <lrea at nekls.org> wrote:
>>> >> NEKLS has changed all of the labels for phone to "Phone (Primary)" and
>>> >> "Phone (Secondary)" instead of home/mobile, using jquery. Same for email. We
>>> >> also added a little note that says "Will be printed on transit slips" beside
>>> >> the correct fields, as an additional reminder as to which one will print
>>> >> out. The reason for this was that Koha only shows the primary phone/email
>>> >> address on printed slips. People who only had mobile phones, and had those
>>> >> phone numbers added to the mobile field were not getting their number
>>> >> printed out on hold slips, confusing library staff and making it hard to
>>> >> contact them regarding their holds. Of course, the easy answer is not
>>> >> technological: just put the mobile number in the home phone field. As it
>>> >> turns out, some of our staff are very literal in their interpretation of the
>>> >> labels on the fields.
>>> >>
>>> >> Which actually brings up another thing that probably needs to be added
>>> >> as a "boy it would be nice if..." bug: if there is only a mobile number in
>>> >> the record, that is the one that should be printed on the slip(s). That is,
>>> >> if we're not going to change the labels permanently.
>>> >>
>>> >> The logic should be as follows: if the home phone is empty, then print
>>> >> the mobile. (same with email addresses: if no home email, print the work
>>> >> email on the slip)
>>> >>
>>> >> And happy weekend, everybody.
>>> >>
>>> >> Liz Rea
>>> >> NEKLS
>>> >>
>>> >> On May 27, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Robin Sheat wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Op donderdag 27-05-2010 om 20:29 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Nicole
>>> >>> Engard:
>>> >>>> What do you all think? Anyone have any strong feelings either way?  I
>>> >>>> will gladly make the change if others think this makes sense, but I
>>> >>>> wanted to bring the question to you all first.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This would suit some work we've been doing with a library internal to
>>> >>> a
>>> >>> company: in this situation 'Phone (home)' doesn't make sense, and
>>> >>> 'primary' would be much more meaningful.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Robin Sheat
>>> >>> Catalyst IT Ltd.
>>> >>> ✆ +64 4 803 2204
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