[Koha] [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

[Ian Walls]

Chris,


I've been meaning to write a Contextual Preferences Engine for Koha for a
while now, to solve the problems we have with the Circ Matrix, as well as
with global sysprefs that should really be more configurable.

The idea is that it will be a DB table with 5 main columns:  Branch, Patron
Category, Item Type, Key and Value.  Any of the first 3 can be a specific
value or "default".  If a contextual preference doesn't make sense to
factor in one of the 3 values, it'll be ignored.

This, along with a rewritten editor and rules tester tool, would solve a
bunch of our customizability problems in one go, without necessarily
introducing too much complexity for users (provided we make a good
interface).

I hope to have a patch for this started after 3.8 releases (and all our DB
revs are stable for a while).  Any help would be welcomed.


-Ian

2012/3/22 Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>

> Recently the need has arisen locally to run the self-checkout (sco) under
> multiple user accounts to accommodate multiple branches using the sco
> module. To the best of my understanding this is not currently possible due
> to the way in which the user for the sco module is defined using a system
> preference. While there may be a number of ways to accomplish this, it
> seems that it may be desirable to have a category of "branch specific"
> system preferences. This would be an attempt to group system preferences
> into one of two general categories of "global" or "branch." Before
> launching out into writing such a feature, I thought I'd run it by both
> lists to see if a) I'm way off base, b) if such a feature is desirable, and
> c) if I'm off on an insanely hard project.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris
>
> _______________________________________________
> Koha-devel mailing list
> Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
> website : http://www.koha-community.org/
> git : http://git.koha-community.org/
> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
>