Hi all, Kathy, This helps quite a bit...I do appreciate it! I'll talk with the libraries in the consortium and see what direction they want to take. I'll also take a look at our TPAC pages and see we can work on things from that angle.
Thanks again! Tony On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kathy Lussier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > MassLNC sponsored this development, and my recollection from discussions > during the development project was that it's best to enable/disable it for > the entire consortium. See also the following from the description in the > OU setting: > > "Unless you are carefully silo-ing patrons and their use of the OPAC, the > context org for this setting should be the top org in the org hierarchy, > otherwise patrons can trample their user settings when jumping between > orgs." > > However, if you have a different tpac template for the library that wants > SMS, maybe you can hide the SMS options in the template for your other > libraries? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking there are three places > where you would need to hide SMS: the record page where you have the option > to text the call number, the place hold page, and the myopac notification > preferences page. > > Just a thought, but it's not something I've tested so I don't know how > well it would work. > > Kathy > > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) [email protected] > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier > > On 3/7/2013 12:34 PM, Tony Bandy wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please pardon any duplication but trying to figure out if the Evergreen > SMS setup can be done on a per library basis in a consortium? I realize > the system options can be set this way in the library settings editor, but > when we did this, every library in the consortium had the SMS option, not > just the one that was asking. > > Looking at this post (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/884254), > I'm thinking that maybe editing the TPAC on a per-library basis would > enable us to only have this for the libraries that need this? > > Also note that from the post above, I did find this: > > Also, it's probably best to have just one sms.enable for the whole > consortium. If you mix and match on/off settings here, then user > preferences for SMS can get > blown away if the user updates their settings in the TT-OPAC at an org > where SMS is disabled. > > I'm not quite sure the best way to interpret that so thanks up front for > your thoughts, links, help...... > > > Tony > > -- > Tony Bandy > [email protected] > OHIONET > 1500 West Lane Ave. > Columbus, OH 43221-3975 > 614-486-2966 x19 > > > -- Tony Bandy [email protected] OHIONET 1500 West Lane Ave. Columbus, OH 43221-3975 614-486-2966 x19
