Hi Tomas,
I can see the benefits of a per-library, per-itemtype, per-category
configuration table, but SMTP and Z39.50 servers do not seem to be the
best example for that : "per-itemtype SMTP servers" does not make sense
at all, and why would someone need per-library Z39.50 servers ?
Do you have other examples in mind ?
Will the per-category setting rely on the category of the logged-in user
or the category of the user being worked on (patron checking out an item
for instance) ? Will it depend on the setting itself (some settings rely
on the logged-in user, some other settings rely on the user being worked
on) ? Will it depend on another setting (like item-level_itypes syspref)
? Will that other setting be configurable per-library ? ...
I'm afraid we will end up with a "configuration hell", even worse than
what we already have with global system preferences.
At least it should be very clear what each per-thing mean, and we should
be really careful to not over-complicate configuration.
In this particular example, a `smtp_servers` table seems a lot more simple
Le 03/08/2020 à 19:59, Tomas Cohen Arazi a écrit :
TL;DR;
This email is for getting some feedback about a new table I'm proposing
to add that implements a pattern I'm seeing more and more often as
required: global, and per-library, per-item type and per-category
settings. It can be easily extended with new constraints as well.
Hi all, I wanted to highlight bug 26129 [1] which proposes to add a new
table, for storing configuration entries. It differs from the
systempreferences table basically on the ability to set values with
per-library, per-item type and per-category basis, as well as default
catch-all.
It is the result of noticing that the smtp_servers table I was going to
add on bug 22343 [2], could be easily generalized and could become useful.
If someone is willing to do it, we could migrate systempreferences into
this new table, but that definitely deserves more thinking. The SMTP
configuration page won't live in the sysprefs page, and so a way to
differentiate them could be added.
One sample use of this configurations table, could be moving z39.50
servers there.
[1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26129
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26129>
[2] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22343
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22343>
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