Adding a phone number column to checkout search results
Before enabling the phone number column
Go to the context sensitive search box on the homepage and ensure the Check out tab has been selected. Complete a search for a patron that will return multiple accounts, i.e part of a name, cardnumber or email.
The patron phone number column is hidden by default, however the instructions below will outline how to alter this setting.
Enabling the phone column in the patron search
Go to KOHA administration > Additional parameters > Configure columns > Columns settings > Circulation. This will reveal a variety of tables that control columns related to different areas of the circulation process. The table to be edited for this feature is (id=table_borrowers).
The phone number option will be hidden with a tick in the corresponding cell of the Is hidden by default column.
To set the patron phone number to appear on the checkout search table, ensure there is no tick mark in the Is hidden by default column beside the phone cell.
Hit Save.
After enabling the phone number column
The patron phone number is now displayed in a column during a checkout search.
If there is no phone number on the patron account the column will still display but the cell will be blank.
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