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

[Tony Bandy]

Morning everyone,

Thanks so much for the information and thoughts.  I agree, I think we will
just make this available for everyone as it seems to be the best method of
doing things...

Appreciate it!

Tony


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Aaron Zsembery <azsembery at pls-net.org>wrote:

> 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
> 2557 State Rt. 21
> Canandaigua, New York  14424
> Phone: (585) 394-8260
>



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