http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13142
David Cook <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from David Cook <[email protected]> --- This is a good point. It always drives me nuts when I'm filling out forms that say "Primary, Secondary, Mobile", as my mobile is always my primary number. "Primary, Secondary, Other" probably makes the most sense. *consults phone* In my phone's contact list, I insert a number and then I can choose a label for that number. I can even have two mobile numbers if I want. Admittedly, in that case, I get to decide myself what number matters most. I'm not sending out automated phone notifications or anything like that. Honestly, if the database were more normalized, we'd have a borrower_phone_number table with columns something like: "phone_number_id","borrowernumber" (FK), "phone_number", "type". Maybe even have another column for "primary" or "priority" (so you can choose primary, secondary, whatever). You could do the same thing for "borrower_email": "email_id","borrowernumber" (FK), "email_address", "type", "priority" (or probably a better label than priority). If we wanted to make it even more flexible, we could just have "email" and "phone_number" tables and have columns to determine whether it's for a library or a patron (or maybe some other organization/group/listserv). Koha isn't a very normalized database which causes a fair amount of pain sometimes (that said, highly normalized databases can also be painful). Of course, if we did that, we'd need to change everywhere that we add/edit/view/send to email addresses and phone numbers, and who has that kind of time. --- tldr; In any case, I agree with what I think Owen is saying. The label doesn't really matter. It's the importance (i.e. whether or not it's primary) that matters. Locally, we often change the label using jQuery anyway, but the important one is always the first one during data entry (at least with newer clients... older clients will be tied a bit more to the email vs emailpro model which is a bit tedious). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
