Rationalize working location process in staff accounts

[Shannon Dineen]

BC Libraries Cooperative would like to see the working location default to the org unit used in staff record, and be set automatically if it is continuing to be required. If simpler or more popular, a warning is OK too, as that would work as well. Use case is we get a lot of tickets about not being able to register patrons without it, for example. Also, with it being on a separate screen, it is routinely missed by staff despite our documentation and training efforts.

Note this has been an issue for the community, in one form or another, since 2011.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/885743

[Benjamin Kalish]

It definitely sounds like a fix for this is overdue!

I can imagine many different solutions to this and I can imagine that the approach taken could make a big difference in the ease of implementation–we might want to ask some devs their opinion on the easiest way of avoiding the problem before requesting a specific change. (On the ticket there is some talk about doing a check at login, which would, I imagine, be very easy.)

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