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

[Tony Bandy]

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 <klussier at masslnc.org> 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) 343-0128klussier at masslnc.org
> 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
>
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