[Koha] new member form template abstraction

[Erik Stainsby]

Greetings,

Has anyone started working on an abstraction of the new member forms?
Some of the values on the lists appear to be hardcoded into the 
pages/templates.

It would seem useful to allow a per-setup(institution) list of Town names, and 
localities, perhaps a list of valid Areacodes for members of the institution.

It seems to me this would be best done as a small set of tables rather than in 
the templates themselves.

My own background should illustrate my biases here:
I work for a system in an urban region of about 2 Million people; my own city, 
the nominal "capital" of the region is about 500,000.  The library I work in 
has 22 branches within our city, and extensive lending arrangements 
throughout the larger region.

A new patron will register with our system in the context of a primary agency, 
their "local" branch.  The branch records should be accessible for linking 
into the new patron record as a foreign key, and for display during the 
registration process.

Further, pattern matching logic could be used against postal codes, which are 
nationally administered, and uniquely identify a neghbourhod (even down to a 
specific block). 

In the administrative area, a new branch would be "created" including postal 
area and contact info.

Is any of this making sense ?

Cheers, 
Erik Stainsby
Modern Alchemy