[Koha] Acquisitions Vendor addresses

[Walls, Ian]

In the long run, I think it might be a good idea to allow for arbitrarily many addresses to be attached to any institution.  This would separate the physical locations (like vendor PO boxes, shipping addresses, libraries branches) from the financial institutions (vendors, library Accounts Payable, etc.), and allow us to mix library financial institutions together with vendors (making consortial purchasing of resources easier to trace)

Additionally, I really think that Vendor Contact should not be stored with the Vendor itself, but rather linked, again allowing for arbitrarily many contacts (each with a role).  This would be extremely valuable for the development of a Koha Electronic Resources Management (ERM) system, since one often has different contacts at a company (sales, technical support, billing, etc.).  Vendor contacts could then be assigned a level of permission on the system (or not), as the library deems appropriate.

I have the beginnings of a proposal in the works, and I will publish it as an RFC when I'm confident it makes sense.

Cheers,


Ian Walls
Systems Integration Librarian
NYU Health Sciences Libraries
550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-8687



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Silly phone didn't reply to all.

In the US they are 2 different things.  Many businesses have a box at the post office for letter and bills and a physical address should you want to ship a package back to them.  That said, labeling them differently shouldn't cause problems - but a librarian should answer 

Nicole 
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Hi,
   Acquisitions vendor addresses come in two variants "physical" and 
"postal" addresses. Confronted by these generates a lot of confusion in 
new users (A postal address is a physical address? When do we use one 
and not the other?) They are also stored differently in the table but 
presented similarly to the user in edit operations. I'm not clear what 
functional difference these addresses should have, but I'd like to 
switch to less misleading labels. Even 'address' and 'alternative 
address' would be an improvement. Looking to see if their any insights, 
opinions etc from anyone using (or looking to use) acquisitions.

Colin

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