[Koha] Bug 9775 - Unitprice should be hidden when creating an order

[Renvoize, Martin]

Hi all,

There's a bit of contention going on over at bug 9775 and I wanted to ask
the wider audience of librarians for their thoughts on acquisitions
workflows in relation to this bug.

Currently, the 'New order' page, whether it be via a suggestion, via an
existing record or via another means, displays 'Actual cost' as an editable
field.

On further investigation, it appears that this field was intended to
contain the final amount paid and not an estimation and as such the
intention was for it to only be defined at the point of invoice/payments
once it is fixed.

Bug 9775 does exactly this, hides the field from display on the new order
page.  It also goes slightly further and prevents a prior paid price (for
serial subscriptions) from carrying across when you are placing your next
new order via a subscriptions search.

My question to you is, is anyone using this field in a different way to my
expectations/understanding?  Would it cause anyone any issues to remove
this field from the order screen so it is more clearly defined as to it's
intended use only on the receipting pages?  Are there any alternative
improvements you would like to see instead of this change?

Many thanks,

*Martin Renvoize*

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