Patrons from Library A can "opt in" to sharing their personal information with Library B. However, there's no way for Library A to prevent their patrons from being opted in at other libraries. The ability to selectively disallow opt-in by home library would be useful if, for example, Library A is a school library and does not want other libraries in the consortium to have access to student accounts.
I am working on adding this as a new feature. Here's the plan:
1. Add an org setting (org.restrict_opt_to_depth) that governs opt-in restrictions. All org units within the home OU's section of the org tree at or below depth X are within the patron's opt-in scope; opt-in is disallowed at any library outside of that scope. If the setting is not enabled, the entire org tree is effectively within scope. (None of this should be confused with the opt boundary, which defines the point at which patrons need to be opted in vs. just granting access without opt-in.)
2. Modify open-ils.actor.user.org_unit_opt_in.check so that it checks that setting and determines if the current work OU is within the patron's opt-in scope. If opt-in is not permitted at this work OU, return an appropriate response.
3. Handle the response in the staff client. This means adding equivalent functionality to both the XUL client (which we are currently using) and the web client.
Initial changes pushed to working repo:
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Todo (by me):
1. Add pgTAP isnt_empty() test for the new org setting.
2. Add Perl live test for all possible return values of open-ils.