Koha 22.11: Purchase Suggestions

by Lisette Scheer on May 22, 2023

Enhancements

Acquisitions

[31333] Add the ability to limit purchase suggestions by patron category

This enhancement allows staff to exclude patron categories from submitting purchase suggestions in the Koha OPAC by selecting them in the new "suggestionPatronCategoryExceptions" system preference.

[31374] Add a non-public note column to the suggestions table

This enhancement adds a new non-public notes field to the suggestion tables in the staff interface, allowing staff to add notes that patrons cannot see as part of their workflow. It is configurable using the table settings in administration. Below is a comparison with Koha 22.05 on the left and the new form from 22.11 on the right.

OPAC

[30195] Suggestion form in OPAC should use ISBN to FindDuplicate

This enhancement checks ISBNs in new OPAC purchase suggestions, if present, and warns if there is already a record matching that suggestion in Koha.

[31605] Improve style of OPAC suggestions search form

This enhancement makes minor modifications to make labels and fields display more likely as well as adding alert classes to many messages. (Backported to 22.05.07)

Other bugs fixed

Acquisitions

[32603] Suggester category in Suggestions management

This adds a new column to the suggestions management tables which lists the patron category of the patron suggesting the item.

System preference, authorized values, and letter code changes

New system preferences

• suggestionPatronCategoryExceptions