[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding patron info to checkout receipts - quick poll

Terran McCanna tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
Tue Jan 23 14:55:15 EST 2018


+1 on the expire_date - a lot of our libraries were using that in the xul
client. (Open ticket
http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=evergreen/pines.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/rel_3_0_2_library_info_links
)



Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org


On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Boyer, Jason A <JBoyer at library.in.gov>
wrote:

> I'm basically done with https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1737540
> but before making a potential privacy faux-pas or leaving out anything
> potentially useful I wanted to get some opinions. (My hope is that no
> library uses the whole prefix, first, middle, last, suffix anywhere, but
> prefix + last, just first, or first +middle initial might be useful)
>
>
>
> Here's what I'm planning to add to a patron object in checkout receipts:
>
>
>
> prefix
>
> first_given_name
>
> second_given_name
>
> family_name
>
> suffix
>
> barcode
>
> money_summary.total_owed
>
> money_summary.total_paid
>
> money_summary.balance_owed
>
> expire_date (can be used with ng-show to give a little reminder that your
> account will expire soon)
>
> alias
>
> has_email (a boolean for use with ng-show; "Have you signed up for our
> newsletters?" or "Have an email? Add it to your account to get
> notifications about your holds!" etc.)
>
> has_phone (same)
>
>
>
> I'm duplicating the patron_money information because there's no need for a
> separate patron and patron_money objects. In the interest of not breaking
> existing templates the patron_money object would still be in place; just
> not mentioned anywhere. I considered usrname but couldn't see a use case.
>
>
>
> Are there any strong opinions about adding more fields or removing some of
> these? I figure it's better to knock this out all at once rather than
> poking at it repeatedly with tiny changes.
>
>
>
> Jason
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jason Boyer
>
> MIS Supervisor
>
> Indiana State Library
>
> http://library.in.gov/
>
>
>
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