[Koha-devel] Extended attributes, making them generic ?

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Paul,

I already implemented this feature. Bug 10855 allows to have
additional fields for subscriptions. The new fields are displayed on
the add/edit/show views and can be searched on the serial search page.
That can be extended to others tables.

Jonathan

2013/9/17 Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>:
> Hi Koha-devel,
>
> We've a customer that is asking for new -probably specific- fields in
> the subscription. For example, what they called: "subscription origin".
>
> I was wondering if a good way to do that would be to transform our
> "borrowers attributes" to become "extended attributes". Those extended
> attributes being managed as patron, subscription, acquisition,...
> attributes.
>
> What it means :
>  * changing the table name ! (now, it's borrowers_attributes and
> borrowers_attribute_types)
>  * removing foreign keys to borrowers table.
>  * add a field "scope" (or similar name), that would be borrower,
> subscription, acquisition, ...
>  * update all the code to handle this "scope" field. For example,
> borrower_attributes.borrowernumber would become
> "extended_attributes.externalid", pointing to the borrowernumber, the
> subscriptionid or the ordernumber.
>
> What do you think of the idea ?
> (I don't promize that, even if everybody says it's a wonderful idea, we
> will do it)
> --
> Paul POULAIN - BibLibre
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