Hi David: >From our clients in the Indian subcontinent i can certainly vouch that the functionality *is used* quite frequently because for certain "holy cow" patron categories / patrons the librarians do not want to attract their ire by "how dare you tell me I've an overdue item" email. Not an welcome scenario, but its a reality in societies stuck somewhere between feudalism and capitalism.
Removing that feature may result in a large number of Indian users leaving koha for non standard local software. Just my 2p. Cheers Indranil. On Tue, 26 Apr, 2022, 6:43 am , <dc...@prosentient.com.au> wrote: > I think today is the first time in 10 years that I’ve bumped into “Item > circulation alerts”. By default, they’re enabled for everyone and > everything, and that seems to work. However, today, I noticed a library > where they’re disabled alerts for most categories and item types, and then > wondered why they weren’t getting item circulation emails. > > > > I wonder if this functionality causes more harm than good these days? > Looks like it was introduced in 2009 and never touched again? > > > > Of course, removing this functionality would probably be easier said than > done, as it would be a behaviour change… so maybe it would need to be > deprecated over time. If no rules exist, we could just hide it. If rules do > exist, we’d alert the staff that this functionality was going away in a > future version? > > > > David Cook > > Senior Software Engineer > > Prosentient Systems > > Suite 7.03 > > 6a Glen St > > Milsons Point NSW 2061 > > Australia > > > > Office: 02 9212 0899 > > Online: 02 8005 0595 > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : https://www.koha-community.org/ > git : https://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/ >
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