[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Preferred Name on Notices

[Elizabeth Davis]

Michele and Jason, 

I agree. I have figured out the conditional logic for the receipt templates, but not the email and print notices.  I think making it automatic would be great for everyone.   I know locally we have a few individuals who have not legally changed their name and we would like to be able to use the name they are providing us on all communication.  

Elizabeth

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From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stephenson
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 4:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Preferred Name on Notices

Michele,

Yes, I think that having fields on the user object that return the preferred names or regular names if there is no preferred name would be useful.  It could shortcut some coding.

That said, it would require some plumbing changes to the Evergreen object system, and I'm not sure how generic it could be.

I am adding preferred name to our email templates, and it requires some conditional logic in the templates.  It would be nice if I could put that in a separate template file that gets included in the others to avoid duplicate code, but I don't think the templates in the database can include other templates.

Cheers,
Jason