[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding patron info to checkout receipts - quick poll
Tina Ji
tina.ji at bc.libraries.coop
Tue Jan 23 15:31:48 EST 2018
We need item price. Some of our libraries sum up the price of checked
out items and print a you-saved-so-much note.
I also think Author and Remaining_renewal may be helpful.
Thank you!
Quoting "Boyer, Jason A" <JBoyer at library.in.gov>:
> 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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Tina Ji
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