Re: [Koha] Capturing a "consent" field for new patrons

2018-03-09 Thread Agnes Rivers-Moore
Hello Chris, Barton and the list! An email consent field is something that many libraries need to accommodate, with recent legislation in US, Europe, Canada... If anyone is thinking about developing something around tracking email consent, we would be interested. Useful would be: - consent

Re: [Koha] Capturing a "consent" field for new patrons

2018-03-06 Thread Barton Chittenden
Chris, I would suggest using extended patron attributes for this. Start by making sure the ExtendedPatronAttribute syspref is enabled -- see https://koha-community.org/manual/18.05/en/html/02_administration.html#extendedpatronattributes Then set up Patron Attribute Types in administration:

[Koha] Capturing a "consent" field for new patrons

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Brown
Gentle Reader, We need to capture an email "consent" field when we add new patrons to Koha. Currently my solution is to have staff type "yes" or "no" into the borrowernotes field but what I would really like is to have "yes" and "no" radio buttons, or failing that a drop-down with "yes" and "no"