Yep, will hit you with it Tuesday. :)

Liz

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Nicole Engard <neng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Liz, that is exactly why I was asking for this - it was confusing
> librarians that the home was all that printed to the screen.  But it
> sounds like jquery is the answer for now ... want to share that code
> with me?
>
> Nicole
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Liz Rea <l...@nekls.org> wrote:
>> NEKLS has changed all of the labels for phone to "Phone (Primary)" and 
>> "Phone (Secondary)" instead of home/mobile, using jquery. Same for email. We 
>> also added a little note that says "Will be printed on transit slips" beside 
>> the correct fields, as an additional reminder as to which one will print 
>> out. The reason for this was that Koha only shows the primary phone/email 
>> address on printed slips. People who only had mobile phones, and had those 
>> phone numbers added to the mobile field were not getting their number 
>> printed out on hold slips, confusing library staff and making it hard to 
>> contact them regarding their holds. Of course, the easy answer is not 
>> technological: just put the mobile number in the home phone field. As it 
>> turns out, some of our staff are very literal in their interpretation of the 
>> labels on the fields.
>>
>> Which actually brings up another thing that probably needs to be added as a 
>> "boy it would be nice if..." bug: if there is only a mobile number in the 
>> record, that is the one that should be printed on the slip(s). That is, if 
>> we're not going to change the labels permanently.
>>
>> The logic should be as follows: if the home phone is empty, then print the 
>> mobile. (same with email addresses: if no home email, print the work email 
>> on the slip)
>>
>> And happy weekend, everybody.
>>
>> Liz Rea
>> NEKLS
>>
>> On May 27, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Robin Sheat wrote:
>>
>>> Op donderdag 27-05-2010 om 20:29 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Nicole
>>> Engard:
>>>> What do you all think? Anyone have any strong feelings either way?  I
>>>> will gladly make the change if others think this makes sense, but I
>>>> wanted to bring the question to you all first.
>>>
>>> This would suit some work we've been doing with a library internal to a
>>> company: in this situation 'Phone (home)' doesn't make sense, and
>>> 'primary' would be much more meaningful.
>>>
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