Morning everyone, Thanks so much for the information and thoughts. I agree, I think we will just make this available for everyone as it seems to be the best method of doing things...
Appreciate it! Tony On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Aaron Zsembery <[email protected]>wrote: > On 7 March 2013 at 4:14:15 PM "Alexey Vladimirovich Lazar" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Unless the SMS settings are tied to patron's home library/branch, > > perhaps, where if a user has SMS enabled at their home library, they > > would get an SMS option even if checking out material from a > > different library/branch that has SMS disabled for their own > > patrons. > Our limited testing (turning it on for one library when we meant to turn > it on for the whole system) showed that the SMS settings tie to EITHER your > home library (if logged in) or your current search library (if not logged > in). > In our testing, if your home library has SMS turned on, you place a hold > from there (requesting SMS notification) and the checkout library has SMS > turned off, you will get a SMS notification. > The SMS yes/no is set on the hold record, as such, if the SMS Hold > Notification Action Trigger is turned on but SMS is completely off in > settings, staff can edit the hold (from the staff client) to add the phone > number/carrier and it WILL generate a hold notification (or at least it did > in our test environment). > > Not sure how hairy this would be to actually implement or > > how useful having the option to configure this setting > > per-library/branch would be, in terms of number of libraries who > > would use the option. > I would just turn it on for everyone. If a library doesn't want to use it, > they don't have to fill it in and if the patrons want it, they can enter > that at the time of placing a hold. > > Aaron Z > Jr. Systems Administrator > > Pioneer Library System > 2557 State Rt. 21 > Canandaigua, New York 14424 > Phone: (585) 394-8260 > -- Tony Bandy [email protected] OHIONET 1500 West Lane Ave. Columbus, OH 43221-3975 614-486-2966 x19
