[Koha] new member form template abstraction

[Pat Eyler]

Erik,
would you mind moving this discussion over to the koha-devel mailing list?
koha is really meant to be a users list, and I'm afraid that we're going
to be scaring people off if we keep escalating the technical level here.

thanks,
-pate

Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager               migrant Linux sys admin
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Erik Stainsby wrote:

> 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
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