I've created a proposal on the wiki to enhance Patron Statistical Categories:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:proposal:patron_statistical_categories And a corresponding blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/evergreen/+spec/enhanced-patron-stistical-categories In summary, these enhancements are as follows: * Allow administrators to set Patron Statistical Categories as required fields; * Allow administrators to set a flag that prevents users from entering free text in a Patron Statistical Category; * Allow administrators to set a default entry from the list of fixed entries available in the Patron Statistical Category Basically, the purpose of these enhancements is to improve the quality of data entered in the categories. Reports generated from this data may be used to inform funding decisions, so there's a great deal of interest in making sure that the data is both comprehensive and consistent. I'm working with Bibliomation to implement these changes; our hope is to have something working and ready to roll into the codebase by the end of the calendar year. I'm new to Evergreen and the Evergreen development community, and would appreciate any comments, pointers, criticisms, etc. more experienced developers may have. In particular, I understand that changes to the database schema are adopted very cautiously. These enhancements entail the addition of three new fields to the table actor.stat_cat -- if anyone has any questions about those additions, or sees some potential problems with adding the new fields, I'd love to discuss it. thanks! -- Scott
