[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SMS setup for consortium--all at once?

[Kathy Lussier]

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) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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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
>
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