Re: [Koha-devel] new sysprefs

[Mason James]

I plan to make a patch later this week to remove these sysprefs.

Please let me know if any of these are in fact in use, represent

pre-2.2.9 features that ought to be ported to 3.0, represent a feature

that someone is willing to code and submit a patch for relatively

soon, or are in use by an existing contrib.  If there are any other

dead sysprefs that should be removed, please post those as well.

In short, most of the sysprefs represent features that should be forward-ported

to 3.0, or we'll have some unhappy Koha users :-). Generally speaking, most of

them require quite trivial additions; some could definitely be re-factored to

be more generally useful.

Hi All,

On a related topic... thats been something ive wanted to improve for a *long* time.... 

Is it about time that koha-sysprefs area had a better way of grouping related sysprefs together?

(FYI: the old koha.v2  syspref-grouping seems to be missing from Koha3 currently?)

Perhaps a new 'systempreferences_groups' table,  and a new 'group' column added to the existing sysprefs table 

could work as a quick-fix solution...

Then a new syspref-group could be easily created by staff or developers, and  new or existing sysprefs could be  easily grouped

mysql> select * from systempreferences where  variable = 'QueryFuzzy'\G

*************************** 1. row ***************************

   variable: QueryFuzzy

      value: 1

    options: NULL

explanation: If ON, enables fuzzy option for searches

       type: YesNo

   group: zebra_searching    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<   NEW COLUMN?!??!?!?

In Koha.2, the only way to assign a syspref to a group was to edit the sysprefs.pl file

Which was too much effort for most people, and consequently lots of sysprefs were added without being assigned to a group.

Which has historically lead to a few (misunderstood / broken / duplicated)  sysprefs, 

Any ideas people?

Cheers, Mason

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