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

[Aaron Zsembery]

On 7 March 2013 at 4:14:15 PM "Alexey Vladimirovich Lazar" <alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu> 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
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