[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Notification system design

[Mike Rylander]

On 1/10/07, Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us> wrote:
> Mike Rylander wrote:
>
> >> Oh, that, yes.  Some kind of record of what's been done is always
> >> wanted.
> >> Surely, though, you must have something like that already.
> >
> > We do.
>
> > I was just pointing in the direction of "do we retain all history by
> > marking events 'complete'" or "do we remove events after completion."
> > The former is, in some regards, simpler and gains us more in terms of
> > reporting.  To me, the choice is self-evident ... but I wanted to
> > bring up the options.
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> Traditional reporting, incidentally, might not be all you gain by
> retaining such information.  There's also the potential, down the
> line, for putting stuff like "People who check out C.S. Lewis also
> read these authors..." in the PAC.

Right ... all of that (and what was below) is on the
"roadmap-in-our-heads"  but the hows and whats are far from worked
out.  But, as you say ...

[snip]

>
> I no longer remember what this has to do with the design of the
> notification system, though.

;)

However, all of the ideas you've mentioned are very cool, and things
we need to investigate in detail.  I'll make a note about this thread
on the wiki so we can look back at this later.

Thanks, Nathan, for taking the time to think about these issues, and
keep the ideas coming.  This is the kind of input and planning we all
need in order to turn EG into the most advanced and useful ILS
possible.

-- 
Mike Rylander
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