[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration

[Holly Brennan]

>>I think the only do's/don'ts came down to making sure that staff asked patrons if they had already pre-registered.  Initially we ended up with a fair number of users in the staging tables and the live user tables, until it became something staff were more familiar with using.

That’s a great point, Bill. We will have to remember to add that question to the list in our brains.

I’ve been looking at your pre-registration page. (I love the addition of the PRE). I see that you added the ID fields. I might follow-up with you later if I decide to add custom fields, too.

Can you customize the message that appears after registration saying “Registration successful! Please see library staff to complete your registration.” ? I don’t like that it says success, since the patron isn’t done yet. I want something that says “Almost done!”

-Holly

From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Bill Ott
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration

Beyond a custom form gathering a few extra bits of information, today we're using most of the stock self-reg code.

We do run a query from cron to clean up leftover users after 30 days, but that's about it.

I think the only do's/don'ts came down to making sure that staff asked patrons if they had already pre-registered.  Initially we ended up with a fair number of users in the staging tables and the live user tables, until it became something staff were more familiar with using.


On 04/17/2014 04:21 PM, Holly Brennan wrote:
Ahh, Bill. He gets to do all the full stuff! (I remember his patron signature scrambler at Evergreen 2013!)

-Holly

From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org<mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Ruth Frasur
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration

Holly,

You might talk to Bill Ott about this.  GRPL did some pretty cool stuff with patron self-registration.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Holly Brennan <haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us<mailto:haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us>> wrote:
I’m getting ready to set this up for our library (single branch, no consortium). We are running 2.5.2.

The instructions are pretty clear on where all the settings are (thanks to the doc. author!)… I really just wanted to get feedback from libraries who have implemented this, to see if there were problems that occurred during set up or after going live. Dos and Don’ts, lessons learned, how long you keep pending registrations, etc.

It’s a procedure that appears straight-forward, which makes me suspicious! Thanks in advance for your comments!

-Holly




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