[Koha] How to copy patron permissions?

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Michael,

this will work as long as you only assign 'module/top level permissions.
As soon as you only assign some sub-permissions of a module to a user,
you'll also need the entries from the user_permissions table.

Hope that helps,

Katrin

On 27.04.22 12:31, Michael Kuhn wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks to all who answered my e-mail concerning patron permissions!
> Raymund Delahunty, Owen Leonard, David Nind, Joel Coehoorn, Michael
> Sutherland and Katrin Fischer!
>
> I have saved all the information you gave me for other uses cases. But
> in our current library we are hesitating to use non-Koha-standard
> methods like external Javascript or plugins. Since we don't need to
> copy patron permissions very often we will wait until Koha implements
> a proper way to copy patron permissions, e. g. according to
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30623
>
> For the cases when we actually need to copy patron permissions, for us
> the following way seems to be the easiest (instead of manual "box
> ticking") :
>
> 1. Find the cardnumber (here: 25) of a patron which has the desired
> patron permissions, then search for the patron permissions of this
> patron:
>
> SELECT flags FROM borrowers WHERE cardnumber=25;
>
> 2. The result will show the number associated with the staff member’s
> permissions, for example:
>
> +-------+
> | flags |
> +-------+
> | 16900 |
> +-------+
>
> 3. Then update the field "flags" of another patron (here with
> cardnumber 26) which should receive the same patron permissions:
>
> UPDATE borrowers SET flags=16900 WHERE cardnumber=26;
>
> I have tested this successfully on my demo installation.
>
> Best wishes: Michael