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Added two tables and system preference to support a new patron alternate ID and attributes feature. A patron attribute (or extended patron attribute) is an additional piece of information associated with a patron record. Each attribute has a type that specifies whether the attribute is repeatable, can serve as a unique identifier, can take a password, and whether it can be used to search for patron records in the staff interface. The list of attribute types is controlled by the superlibrarian. Once an attribute type is defined, values for that attribute can be added to the patron record via the staff interface or the batch patron import. Two uses of extended attributes are: - defining additional unique identifiers, such as a campus student ID number, a library staff HR number, and so on. These IDs can be used for searching or matching and overlaying records during a batch import. - additional statistical categories. For example, a library could define an attribute type for tracking the academic major of a student patron. Any number of attributes of this sort could be defined. The extended attributes feature is completely optional. If the new syspref, ExtendPatronAttributes, is OFF, the patron attributes tables will be ignored; it will not be possible to display, edit, search for, or match on extended attributes. The tables are: [1] borrower_attribute_types - store attribute types defined by the administrator. - code - description - repeatable (whether a patron record can have more than value of a given attribute type) - unique_id (whether values of this type must be unique within the database) - opac_display (whether values of this type can display in the patron details page in the OPAC) - staff_searchable (whether values of this type can be used to retrieve patron records in circulation) - password_allowed (if set, staff patron editor will allow a password to be associated with a value; this is mostly a hook for functionality to be implemented in the future. - authorised_value_category (code of an authorised_value category. If one is specified, the staff patron editor will use a dropdown for setting values of this type) [2] borrower_attributes - the actual attributes. - code (attribute type code, FK) - borrowernumber (link to patron, FK) - attribute (the value) - password (password associated with value) Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com> |
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