[OPEN-ILS-DEV] overdue and pre-due notice config

[Bill Erickson]

I'm beginning work on courtesy (predue) notices and a re-architecture of  
the existing overdue notice script for better templating and  
configuration.  Attached is a sample configuration section (from  
opensrf.xml) I created for setting these up.  I wanted to work backwards  
 from the configuration to the code to make sure the requirements are  
accurately represented.  This configuration is only for email notices and  
generating a local XML file (for sending to a vendor, creating local mail  
notices, etc.).  This is not the full-blown notication system (telephony,  
etc.) described in  
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:notification_system&s=notices.   
However, I'd like to think that this is at least a step in that direction.

For predue notices, there was a discussion of basing the notice date on a  
percentage of the total circulation duration.  I toyed with that some and  
decided in the end to model predue notices on duration date ranges  
instead.  It's just easier on the eyes.  I'm open to discussion on that  
one, though.

For 1.4.0, the plan is to have locale-aware templates, built with Perl's  
Template Toolkit.  1.4.X will introduce per-org-unit templates.

Suggestions and comments on the configuration welcome.

-b



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Bill Erickson
| VP, Software Development & Integration
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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