https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=40341

--- Comment #5 from David Cook <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to George Williams (NEKLS) from comment #2)
> At our libraries we use the messaging preferences as defaults for new users
> and then allow patrons to modify their messaging preferences to meet their
> own needs.  We don't use the patron category controls to act as a policy
> template and I wouldn't want any changes I might make to the messaging
> preferences on categories.pl to affect any changes for our patrons that may
> have previously made to their messaging preferences.
> 
> Any changes to categories.pl that would cause it to act as a patron policy
> template should be designed to be optional.

Yeah, I think you have a good point here, George. If
EnhancedMessagingPreferencesOPAC is enabled, it doesn't really make sense for
the library to be able to override patron settings.

I think an argument could be made that it's even problematic with
EnhancedMessagingPreferences because while you need
EnhancedMessagingPreferences in order to set up messaging preferences at the
patron level, it also means staff may have individualised someone's
preferences, so it's tough to know if they should be overridden...

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Maybe the way to do it is to add a new system preference which toggles the
visibility of a button on categories.pl which lets you push out the defaults to
override any existing preferences. It would need to do it via a BackgroundJob. 

I think it's mostly useful shortly after an initial data migration, but there
are times where it can be handy to do a mass add (for instance if a library
adds SMS notifications for all users). 

I don't know. This is a tricky one. I mostly just use CLI tools to handle this
scenario...

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